The Ipcress File

Name: The Ipcress File
Genre: Mystery, Thriller

United Kingdom · 1965
1h 49m
Director Sidney J. Furie
Starring Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd
Genre Mystery, Thriller

In London, sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security when a top scientist is kidnapped. He soon becomes entangled in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.

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Variety by

Pic does not build up to the type of suspense usually demanded of such thrillers.

Village Voice by Andrew Sarris

The Ipcress File was reasonably entertaining while I was watching it, but after it was over I felt I'd been had... Among the tiresome directorial tricks in The Ipcress File is the repetitively off-angle anti-climax with the heavies feeding parking meters, hibernating in libraries, and plotting at band concerts. Nothing happens most of the time, and this is supposed to be funny and ironic.

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Empire by Angie Errigo

Harry Palmer, charismatic but grounded in reality, is the perfect popular bridge between the spectacular escapades of Bond and the cold, harsh milieu of Deighton's embittered, betrayed spies.

The New York Times by Bosley Crowther

The Ipcress File is as classy a spy film as you could ask to see.

Los Angeles Times by Michael Wilmington

The film now seems less urbane and innovative, more coldly flashy and bluntly affected -- full of sound and Furie, signifying little. [2 June 1987, p.Cal-1]

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

Caine's star-quality and absolute ease in front of the camera are fully formed.