This is
the Harry Palmer movie site. The Harry Palmer-movies belonged
to the "serious spymovies". Len Deighton wrote the
novels, but Harry Saltzman (who was also one of the the
producers of James Bond) and his team made the name.
"Harry Palmer is the thinking man's James Bond",
they said... Michael Caine starred as the "clever
Cockney", the spy who wasn't as glamorous as 007, but
was certainly more realistic. The first three movies were
stylishly made by Saltzman and his team in the sixties. Much
later, two were made in 1995; unfortunately they missed
everything that made their predecessors so succesful, except
for Michael Caine, who had become older but was still a
superpersonality on screen. The movies were The Ipcress File,
Funeral in Berlin, Billion Dollar Brain, Bullet To Beijing
and Midnight In St.Petersburg.
By the
way, if you see this, your browser is antique!