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by jesseemerson1950 on Jan.25, 2010, under Uncategorized
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Each one of the “Harry Palmer” films is radically different from the other. “The Ipcress File” (Universal, 1965) was a psychological thriller. “Funeral in Berlin” (Paramount, 1966) was a taut espionage triple base. “The Billion Dollar Brain” (United Artists, 1967) was something else.
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Throughout the series, Michael Caine starred as “Harry Palmer” — the leer with no name in the Len Deighton novels. Each film has its acquire scuttle on Deighton’s work. The first two films depicted Harry Palmer as a working class discover. Very down to earth and gritty. This third outing, directed by Ken Russell, was slicker, somewhat Bond-like in feel — but then, so was the book on which it’s based. Some admire it, some loathe it. The actors are quite salubrious, production values are high, the snow is for precise and lots of it. The site is exclusive — no doubt about it. Actually quite bizarre at times with some over-the-top station pieces. A cracking well-behaved peer record — but don’t quiz explosions every five minutes.
This is quite a obedient (not broad), spellbinding film and long overdue on DVD. It’s been available since September 2004 on Station 2 disc and now at long last on Site 1 on October 4, 2005, in its novel aspect ratio and Dolby stereo. Apparently a short segment with Beatles music had to be deleted for copyright purposes. Perhaps the holding company held out for to remarkable money?
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After a lapse of over 25 years, the next Harry Palmer films with Michael Caine would be “Bullet to Beijing” and “Midnight in St Petersberg”.
Over the top can be a obvious thing. For decades Bond movies have made their reputation on it. However, this third entry in the Harry Palmer series goes a long design to undoing the generous will built up over the first two instalments (The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin) in its 60’s excess.
Its predecessors made a virtue not of reality, but creating a believable every day Cockney with fresh character traits, unwillingly dragged through the existence of spying, and all the bureaucracy inherent in it. The movie and area were never fully grounded in reality, but were nonetheless believable.
Here, Ken Russell opts to throw away the edgy impressionistic camera angles developed by Sidney Furie and Guy Hamilton, instead making a pseudo Bond movie. Which is a valid pity – who needs another Bond-lite character? The spot builds slowly at first with satisfyingly snowy locations and skullduggery and spying.. but soon becomes lost in an over-the-top ending entertaining a megalomaniac American oil billionaire using a not-so-super-now-computer to try and invade Latvia.
There is never a steady sense of exertion to humanity, and too many status threads are left unexplained for this to be an entirely successful affair.
And yet, all of this is tempered by Michael Caine’s effortless charisma in the role. If the scriptwriters fail to gain the details in the screenplay that made the character so engrossing, Caine overcomes this with his hide presence. Karl Malden plays well in the rather two dimensional `greedy guy’ role, and Ed Begley plays `evil megalomaniac’ well within the confines of the material. Guy Coleman makes a welcome return as Colonel Ross but alas is woefully underused. The femme fatale is played by Francoise Dorleac, who tragically died at a young age later the same year in a car accident.
Honeywell computers are given a great credit as having supplied all the computing rooms and material which execute such a tremendous component of the set. It’s fantastically quaint now to peep gargantuan rooms of computers racked up to do mundane tasks, programming supplied by stacks of cards. One unintentionally hilarious scene has Karl Malden `editing’ the data by taking some of the programming cards out and shredding them! I can’t imagine what a generation brought up on iPods and remarkable home computers must develop of it.
In summary, what makes the movie at best mediocre – the bland script, the over the top campness, will endear it as a classic to others. The action scenes are handled well, the locations in Finland suitably spectacular, and the actors are more than up to the task. However this reviewer was left cool by more than impartial the scenes of snow and ice.
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