Michael Caine as Harry Palmer: The Working Class 007
Channel: Abstractacus
Date: 2024-03-02

Harry Palmer, the crafty cockney character of three spy thrillers of the 1960's; The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain. His horn-rimmed glasses, lack of gimmicks, taste in cooking and music set him apart from Sean Connery's suave James Bond. Michael Caine's depiction of Palmer showed another side of working-class culture to that of the down-at-heel, often ignorant, portrayals usually enacted. Here I go through the trilogy of movies and observe them from my own perspective.