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| | Ultimate AV: The Ipcress File Masterfully Preserved On DVD |
 | | Back when most espionage adventures were tongue-in-cheeky trifles, filled with comic-book villains and shag-a-delic babes, producer Harry Saltzmana co-producer of the 007 franchise!had the audacity to try something a bit more serious. |
 | | Michael Caine has been established as an above-the-title lead for so long, and has been so consistently terrific in movies good, bad, and indifferent, it's easy to forget that, back in 1965, it was exceedingly odd to encounter someone with his Cockney accent and pasty, unimposing physique as a movie hero. |
 | | The beauty part of his performance here is that, even when Harry Palmer comes across as a snide, almost prissy underachiever, Caine still manages to convey a fair amount of steely authority. |
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