Harry Palmer is briefed to get Russian Oscar Homolka out of Berlin to the West - doesn't believe it for a second. Oh, I forgot. The opening is almost the best bit as a man working near the wall runs and jumps into a metal canister and a tall crane whisks him to safety while German guns fire ineffectually. It is actually Berlin, and London, actually.
A young, cocky and confident Michael Caine makes it worthwhile but you'd have to go a long way to get better than the same year's The Quiller Memorandum.
Paul Hubschmid, Eva Renzi, Guy Doleman, Gunter Meisner (who's in both films).
Photographed again in widescreen by Otto Heller; the music by Konrad Elfers isn't a patch on Barry.
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