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United Kingdom
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Year
1965
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Genres
Crime Thriller
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“For the first time in a British film heroism is no longer the prerogative of a tight-lipped aristocracy imbued with the public-school ethos.”
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Sight & Sound, 1965
Bond co-producer Harry Saltzman aimed to establish Harry Palmer (Michael Caine in his first starring role) as the anti-007. To help him in this quest he hired composer John Barry, editor Peter Hunt and production designer Ken Adam, all key players in the Bond series.
While Bond gets to gad about the Caribbean, working-class culture nut Palmer remains stuck in shabby, dimly-lit London. More fall guy than super spy, he might even be called corrupt, although that would assume an integrity in his colleagues and superiors that is altogether absent.
Young Canadian director Sidney J Furie, working with veteran cinematographer Otto Heller, fills the wide screen with slabs of colour, cramming faces into odd parts of his frequently angular frame – an amusingly 1960s look that doesn’t obscure the fine work of a strong cast.
One of a string of moody mid-1960s European spy thrillers, it spawned two direct sequels, Funeral in Berlin (1966) and Billion Dollar Brain (1967).
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Harry Palmer
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Major Dalby
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Major H.L. Ross
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Jean Courtney
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Jock Carswell
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Radcliffe
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Barney
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Housemartin
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Bluejay
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Alice
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Sir Robert
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Inspector Pat Keightley
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charlady
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Edwards
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Gray
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Chilcott-Oakes
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raid inspector
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raid sergeant
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Taylor
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records officer
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Murray
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operator
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police station sergeant
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prison doctor
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prison guard
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prison guard
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prison guard
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[security clerk]
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[first agent]
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[tea girl]
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[dubbed voice of Jean Courtney]
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