Classic Movies: The Story of...: Season 3, Episode 1

3 - 1: The Ipcress Files

A celebration of cinematic masterpiece The Ipcress Files, a spy thriller from 1965, based on Len Deighton's novel published three years earlier. Directed by Sidney J Furie, it starred Michael Caine as an intelligence officer from the War Office investigating the disappearances of high-level scientists.