He escapes and calls Dalby and Ross to the factory for a disclosure.
Before he can do so, however, he is abducted and brought to the factory to be brainwashed. Then one of Dalby's unit apparently penetrates the Ipcress mystery and is strangely murdered and when yet another civil intelligence agent is killed under circumstances implicating Palmer, Dalby suggests that Palmer go into hiding. Meanwhile, Dalby makes a deal with Bluejay to exchange the brainwashed scientist for £25,000 in cash. When this trail begins to fade, another clue prompts Palmer to raid a deserted London factory and he discovers a piece of recording tape on which the perforated word "Ipcress" appears. A number of scientists have been disappearing mysteriously, then reappearing with curious "brain drains." Radcliffe is especially wanted by the intelligence authorities because of a secret file in his possession, and Palmer investigates Bluejay, a crook who deals in the sort of merchandise represented by Radcliffe. Radcliffe, a scientist, after the murder of his bodyguard. He is the smartest guy in the room.After being transferred to Dalby's civil intelligence unit from Major Ross's military unit, Harry Palmer is assigned to investigate the abduction of Dr. To have a working-class central character who lives by his wits. “It’s, hopefully, a twisty, sassy, gripping spy story, but baked within it are these collisions in a world of social mobility. Those winds of change that were blowing through the 1960s in terms of equality, social advancement, feminism and race. “Also to explore how the world in which we now live came to be. In that it does enable us to go much more under the surface into the emotions of the characters.
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Their father produced the 1965 film version with Michael Caine plus two sequels and the first nine James Bond films with Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli.ĭirector James Watkins told me: “I absolutely love the 1965 film. While among the executive producers are Hilary and Steven Saltzman. Not least via a cast at the top of its game telling a story that spans the globe with delicious wit, grit, sass and considerable style.Īs you can read in the press pack, there are also some fascinating production background stories and links back to the sixties, including to The Beatles. The scripts for this production are some of the very best I have ever read, brilliantly brought to the screen by all involved. Son of a docker Harry finding himself thrown into a world of international espionage on the cusp of the Swinging Sixties where nothing is quite what it seems.Įxecutive producer Will Clarke said: “It’s spooky how some of the themes of the novel have become more relevant today than they were even 10 or 20 years ago.” Set in 1963 during The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union just after the Cuban Missile Crisis with the threat of nuclear war still hanging over the world. Written by Oscar-nominated John Hodge, the six part spy thriller filmed in Liverpool and Croatia starts on ITV at 9pm this Sunday (March 6). Joe Cole talking to me about his role as reluctant spy Harry Palmer in a stunning new adaptation of Len Deighton’s 1962 novel The Ipcress File. “We’re pawns in a bigger game…I think this story is relevant to today.” “I quickly found myself enamoured with the man, the myth, the legend.
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