Cold War Summer: The Ipcress File (35mm)
August 5, 2026
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Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Produced by James Bond movie mogul Harry Salzman, the excellent spy thriller The Ipcress File, about the hunt for a kidnapped scientist, was intended to launch a thinking man’s 007 franchise, one somehow truer to the drudgeries of Cold War spycraft in MI5. Michael Caine’s famously bespectacled interpretation of author Len Deighton’s Harry Palmer—an “ordinary and unglamorous” thief turned reluctant undercover agent—proved a great box office and critical success. “The Ipcress File was the first movie in which my name was ‘above the title,’” Caine recalled. “Harry Salzman decided to do this even though it was not in my contract. When I asked him why, he said: ‘If I don’t think you’re a star, who the hell else will?’” 35mm courtesy Universal Pictures
- Director: Sidney J. Furie
- Principal Cast: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1965
- Running Time: 109
- Producer: Harry Salzman
- Screenplay: Bill Canaway, James Doran, based on the novel by Len Deighton
- Language: English
- US Distributor: Universal