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 This is the
(unofficial) Harry Palmer movie site.
The Harry Palmer movies belong to the "serious spy movies". Len
Deighton wrote the novels, but Harry Saltzman (who was also one of the
the producers of James Bond) and his team created the name and movie
character. "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, The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar
Brain, were stylishly made by Saltzman and his team in the Sixties.
Much later, two more were made in 1995, Bullet to Beijing and Midnight
in St. Petersburg. Unfortunately
these films missed everything that
made their predecessors so successful, except for Michael Caine, who
had become older but was still a superpersonality on screen.
These
pages are about Harry Palmer and everything around the short phenomenon.
Check the movie pages in the menu for posters, stills, lobbycards,
radiocommercials, featurettes, trailers, deleted
scenes, soundtracks and a lot more. For more general information about
the Harry Palmer phenomena, read this
article.These
pages describe as much as there is available about the movies or give links to other
pages. Thanks to Terry Hine, Mark
Isaacs, filmcollectief.nl, Peter Hegenbarth and
Pim
Bergkamp for their great contributions. In case you have
material to add, please mail me.
new ** 2 Nov'14 Bullet to Beijing Italian dvd cover added here.19 Oct'14 Ipcress, Funeral and Billion $ Brain dvd&bluray covers added here, here and here! 11 Oct'14 New Funeral in Berlin location photos here. 27 Aug'14 New Blu-Rays! Region 2 UK Ipcress File and Region 1 Billion Dollar Brain. 10 Mar'14 Billion $ Brain dvd cover added here. 25 Feb'14 Very rare Michael Caine interview with Merv Griffin added here. 21
Feb'14 Very rare behind the scenes photos of Billion Dollar Brain AND
production design sketch by Syd Cain here!!!18
Feb'14 Turkish videocover Ipcress added here.16
Feb'14 Ipcress dvd covers added here and
Norwegian video cover here. Modern
Ipcress poster here.10
Dec'13 New Billion $ Brain stills here.11 Apr'13 Two rare behind the scenes
stills of Funeral in Berlin added here.25 Jan'13 Complete Harry Palmer
collection released on dvd! Click here.9 Jan'13 B$B soundtrack composer
Richard Rodney Bennett's obituary added here.
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new Three HP BluRays released!
Updated 19 Oct 2014
The Ipcress File was re-released on Blu-Ray (region 2) twice and this time with more extras (UK)! Releasedate 28 July
French release contains a special French documentary.
- Michael Caine is Harry Palmer - exclusive interview with Sir Michael Caine
- The Design File - exclusive interview with production designer Sir Ken Adam
- Commentary with director Sidney Furie and film editor Peter Hunt
- Michael Caine Goes Stella comedy short
- 1969 documentary: Candid Caine
- Original theatrical trailer (HD), textless material (HD) and US radio commercials
- Extensive image galleries (HD)
- Commemorative booklet
Billion Dollar Brain BluRay and dvd (region A) were released on 7 October 2014!
A very poor release, only the trailer (without original voice-over) as an extra. Watch it, only for region A!
(so thanks to the brilliant entertainment industry I can't watch it. Another effort to support illegal download sites) | | | |
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Made by
Kees Stam Start: 1 April 1999 Last update: 2 November 2014
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