Cookstrip home as a weekly feature in The Observer. The first cookstrip, "Cooking Beef: Part 1", appeared in The Observer on March 18, 1962 eight months before the release of Deighton's debut novel, The IPCRESS File. The "Len Deighton's Action Cookbook" which expanded these cookstrips into a full-length book was published March 1965, timed to coincide with the release of the film of "The Ipcress File" starring Michael Caine. Deighton chose the menu for the movie's press lunch and everyone was presented with a copy of the book. In the movie, Caine's character, Harry Palmer, is seen cracking eggs with one
The File on Devlin review called it "a thriller that thrilled indifferently." The "New York Times" called it "an overstuffed, improbable bit of claptrap without suspense, wit or intelligence." The File on Devlin The File on Devlin is a 1969 American TV film for the "Hallmark Hall of Fame". It was based on a novel by Catherine Gaskin. The novel was published in 1965. It was directed by George Schaefer, who had just directed the feature film "Pendulum". He called the film "an old fashioned spy story with a mysterious disappearance, an old castle, dark corridors and secret passages, great fun." Elizabeth Ashley made