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
The Man in Grey (novel) Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger. The film was a major commercial and critical success and was the first of the series of Gainsborough melodramas which dominated the British box office during the later years of the war during the immediate post war years. Another Smith novel "Caravan" was turned into a 1946 film "Caravan". The Man in Grey (novel) The Man in Grey was a novel by the British writer Lady Eleanor Smith first published in 1941. It was a melodrama set in Regency Britain. A young woman unhappily married to a cold aristocrat falls in love with