Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
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Michael Caine
Harry Palmer
Paul Hubschmid
Johnnie Vulkan
Oskar Homolka
Colonel Stok
Eva Renzi
Samantha Steel
Guy Doleman
Ross
Hugh Burden
Hallam
Heinz Schubert
Aaron Levine
Wolfgang Völz
Werner
Thomas Holtzmann
Reinhardt
Günter Meisner
Kreutzman
Director
Guy Hamilton
Screenplay
Evan Jones
Tagline
"It was going to be a lovely funeral. Harry ‘Ipcress File’ Palmer just hoped it wouldn’t be his …"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
Paramount Pictures, Lowndes Productions Limited
CinemaSerf
June 29, 2022
Michael Caine reprises his role as the rather curmudgeonly, stoic, "Harry Palmer" in this rather lacklustre tale of Cold War espionage. He is given the task of travelling to East Berlin to help facilitate the defection of "Col. Stok" (the scene-stealing Oskar Homolka), who has for years been in charge of stopping folks escaping from the East heading West - but with increasingly limited success! Pr...
SmarterLabels
July 9, 2023
This almost shocked me. I have watched this film a number of times over the years, and really considered it a somewhat poorer sequel to the exploits of Harry Palmer as first seen in The Ipcress File. Well, I watched it again one day after when I was well rested (and a little bit bored). The thing is that I was concentrating on every little event or nuance that I was picking up. And lo and beho...
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