Отличный фильм!
С интересом затянул в мир разведки, а уж для этого надо постараться.
Феноменальная съемка! ФЕНОМЕНАЛЬНАЯ!
Настолько, что я зашла на страницу оператора фильма и нашла там еще один фильм про Гарри Палмера с Майклом Кейном.
Кстати, фильм от продюссера фильмов о Джеймсе Бонде, Гарри Зальцмана, который лично предложил Майклу эту роль, и после этого они стали друзьями.

А сам Майкл Кейн здесь великолепен. Я вас удивила?
Меня особенно поразило его состояние, когда его герой оказался в плену и был в изнеможенном состоянии. Но не сломался.





In the Len Deighton novels the name of the lead character is never revealed.
So Michael Caine and producer Harry Saltzman tried to think of a boring name for the hero.
Caine suggested "Harry" which Saltzman found rather amusing. Caine then remembered a boring classmate named Tommy Palmer. So "Palmer" became the surname.

Palmer is the first action hero to wear glasses (Caine is myopic in real life).
Michael Caine chose to wear glasses because he expected the film to be the first of a series, similar to the Bond movies.
He feared being over-identified with the character of Harry Palmer and so he wore the glasses so that he could remove them for other roles.

Three pairs of glasses were used by Michael Caine during filming.
When all of these were broken during filming, production was held up for a day, until replacements had been found.
After that, the prop department was stocked with 20 extra pairs of the Harry Palmer model glasses.

This movie proved to be a major influence on the style and ambiance of the popular TV series, Mission: Impossible.
TV producer Bernard L. Kowalski, who'd seen The Ipcress File, was so impressed he requested that a similar mood and urgency be emulated for "M:I."