Screen: 'Funeral in Berlin' Begins Run:Michael Caine Returns as Harry Palmer Soft-Sell Secret Agent Betrayed by Script - latest electric toothbrush

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Do you want Michael Kane to have Christmas?
You can have him.
He's like a cocktail.
Glass blister, electric toothbrush, gift-
Classified packaging.
You can buy him on Sutton's "Gambit", which is neatly packed with Shirley MacLean, with a cheerful and inspiring tribute to the criminal establishment.
You can find him elsewhere in "Alfie", who is tied together by a bunch of birds, even on some of the remaining counters in last year's "Ipcress File.
Yesterday he was ticking like a watch, and on forums, Oriental towers and guilds he appeared in Berlin's funeral in beautiful paper towels.
I think you should get a warning though: this is not the latest model Kane.
This is Kane from Harry Palmer, soft.
Detective selling "Ipcress File" to do another task for British military intelligence agency or M. I. 5.
So he's a little pale, a little old-fashioned. of-
Date, and more secret agents around.
Not Harry Palmer.
He was as cool as the Prince, like wings, flying from London to West Berlin, sliding silently behind the wall, and in contact with an Oscar homocca with a flying leg, play a Soviet general who wants to defect.
He was as cautious as ever, he pulled out this suspicious guy and pretended that Harry Palmer was not born yesterday.
But this is just the beginning of him.
As soon as he tagged the guy and was ready to go back to London and start preparing for the escape, there was a beautiful, funky costume model --one Eva Renzi—
Slipped into his taxi and asked him to change a taxi for reasons I didn't quite understand.
This is another strategy.
Involved with some of the so-called Israeli agents believed to be trying to find some war criminals with huge sums of money locked in Swiss banks --
This gave Harry Palmer the upper hand in the rest of the movie.
I have to tell you again that I don't quite understand why.
This is the problem with this photo.
Too many plots, packed with double
Intersection and triple
Crossing their associates, it all became very confusing, and the gentle Harry Palmer soon seemed to be just a password in the complex plot that the audience could not understand.
Therefore, all his dull movements, his dry impulses and his casual skills to face his opponents seem to be designed at will and mechanically by the screenwriter (Evan Jones)
Picking from what I was told was a nice Len Deighton book.
Harry Palmer is not so exciting and colorful in itself, so he killed you. Mr.
Caine was relaxed in this opaque role, and Miss Renzi was completely attractive as a lady in Israel. Mr.
As a Russian, homorka is interesting, Gunners Mesner plays his usual German Fox, and Paul habsind touches all bases as a deceptive British controller in Berlin
Guy Hamilton made this photo for the usual travel effects and the color looks very handsome.
It's too boring for the benefit of Mr. Caine.
A version of this review appeared in the national edition print on December 23, 1966, with the title: screen: "Funeral in Berlin" running: Michael Kane with Harry Palmer soft --
Selling agents sold out by the script