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How ITV bosses sexed up The Ipcress File – 57 years after Michael Caine original
IT was the movie that helped to turn Michael Caine into an international star – and now The Ipcress File is being rebooted as a sexed-up ITV series. The 1965 cult classic, adapted from Len Deighton’s 1962 spy novel of the same name, was the thriller that introduced the world to Harry Palmer. Played by Caine, the short-sighted, working-class geezer was supposed to be the everyman alternative to super-smooth posh boy James Bond.