[MrHenryDog]

From the producer of Goldfinger comes a film widely recognized as one of the greatest spy thriller of all time. The Ipcress file is the first film in the series of Harry Palmer mysteries, based on the bestseller by Len Deighton, that made Michael Caine a star.
It is the height of the cold war, and ex-thief Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), now reluctantly working as a secret agent, has been called in to investigate a strange occurrence among a number of leading scientists. It seems the scientists have been kidnapped, but reappear only days after the kidnapping, brainwashed and useless. During the course of the investigation, a tape is uncovered with the word "Ipcress" on it.