Ipcress, Funeral in Berlin, Billion Dollar Brain.

[zeitghost]

First film, The Ipcress File, stands up rather well, despite being nearly 50 years old.

Funeral in Berlin isn't so good, but is quite watchable.

Billion Dollar Brain is mostly notable for its incomprehensible plot (I'm sure there's bits missing) and the extensive use of Honeywell computery.

The Billion Dollar Brain was part of a triple DVD pack I purchased in the Oxfam shoppe or emporium in Swansea.

The other two films are "Our Man Flint", which didn't exactly live up to my 40 odd year old memory of same, and "In like Flint" which is the 2nd in the series & thankfully I believe it to be the last.

Unbelievably nonPC.

Dunno if anyone else has seen the two Harry Palmer films from the 90s?

Not exactly wonderful, but they occupied an otherwise even more tedious several hours.

Well, there's a turnup for the book, "In Like Flint" was rather more enjoyable than "Our Man Flint".

Not vastly so, but definitely better.

Glad they never made a third one though.

One very slightly interesting note: Donald Sutherland and Susan George were in "Billion Dollar Brain" according to the credits, though if you blinked you missed them.

[Sysman]

I watched the Ipcress File recently and found it better than I remembered.

Given your review I might skip the Billion Dollar Brain.

[NickFitz]

I remember enjoying Billion Dollar Brain when I first saw it, but I was probably about twelve at the time. Might hunt it down and watch it again when I next own a TV

[stek]

I liked A Funeral in Berlin because I love Berlin (Kino Kant) and it showed post war Berlin very well, and featured Templehof Airport and a 1959 Cadillac Convertible, the car of cars, if Biarritz and Pink, tho the one in the film was brown and just the bobby basic..

Ich Bin Ein Doughnut!

[stek]

I liked A Funeral in Berlin because I love Berlin (Kino Kant) and it showed post war Berlin very well, and featured Templehof Airport and a 1959 Cadillac Convertible, the car of cars, if Biarritz and Pink, tho the one in the film was brown and just the bobby basic..

Ich Bin Ein Doughnut!

And Des Schwartes Cafe on err, Kantstrasse? Love that place and the Zwiebelfisch or whatever opposite-ish, was it a bit lesbo? Need to go back....

[OwlHoot]

Billion Dollar Brain is mostly notable for its incomprehensible plot (I'm sure there's bits missing) and the extensive use of Honeywell computery.

Billion Dollar Brain is completely berserk - Definitely a case of jumping the shark, plotwise.

Another good(ish) espionage film starring Michael Caine (and Laurence Olivier) is The Jigsaw Man (1984). Wasn't one of the Harry Palmer series though.

edit: Ooh, clicking around a few times in IMDB I see they're making another film called 1066. Sounds promising. (It's not the low-key Battle for Middle Earth one that was made a couple of years ago, although that was pretty good too in its way)

[minestrone]

I know I have seen the The Ipcress File but can't remember any of it, even though I was not born then does that mean I enjoyed the 60s?

I suppose these days spying is all about running a grep on a DB dump file knicked from twitter.

[Paddy]

I was under the impression that the “The Billion Dollar Brain” never came out on DVD, if it did your disks are worth quite a bit.

The Billion Dollar Brain should have been made in 70mm Panavision,
35mm spoilt many scenes

[Paddy]

I fear your impression is incorrect.

Aside from this remarkable triple DVD collection, I've seen it as a single DVD.

Is there a Lego version?

[minestrone]

Was there one that centred around a watch shop in East Germany?

Or was that Richard Burton.