The Ipcress File (film) in Berlin" (1966) and "Billion Dollar Brain" (1967). Decades later Michael Caine returned to the character in Harry Alan Towers's "Bullet to Beijing" (1995) and "Midnight in Saint Petersburg" (1996). The Ipcress File (film) The Ipcress File is a 1965 British espionage film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Michael Caine. The screenplay, by Bill Canaway and James Doran, was based on Len Deighton's novel, "The IPCRESS File" (1962). It received a BAFTA award for the Best British film released in 1965. In 1999, it was included at number 59 on the BFI list of the 100 best British
Laughter in the Dark (novel) Laughter in the Dark (novel) Laughter in the Dark (Original Russian title: Камера обскура, "Camera obscura") is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov and serialised in "Sovremennye Zapiski" in 1932. The first English translation, "Camera Obscura", was made by Winifred Roy and published in London in 1936 by Johnathan Long, the paperback imprint of Hutchinson Publishing, with the author credited as Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin. Nabokov was so displeased by the translation's quality that he undertook his own, which was published in 1938 under the now common name, "Laughter in the Dark". It is sometimes mistakenly assumed that he was not fond