Despite coming from the Bondian creative team (supremo Harry Saltzman, designer Ken Adams, editor Peter Hunt, scorer John Barry), this labyrinthine thriller provides a credible everyman alternative to Bond while embracing British everydayness. While investigating kidnapped scientists, undisciplined surveillance man Harry Palmer doesn't globe-trot, bed-hop or trade verbage with cat-stroking megalomaniac villains he spends his time on mundane form-filling tasks in drab offices. Furie's first adaptation of cook-turned author Len Deighton's Cold War novels goes the other way. Since it simply wasn't possible to compete with Connery's 007 in the super-spy stakes during the '60s, Sidney J.
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