THE PALMER FILES
Mar 08, 2020
1 minute
KIM NEWMAN
FUNERAL IN BERLIN (1966)
“Who’s that playing the piano with his elbows?” With Bond-veteran director Guy Hamilton and a Deighton source novel set firmly in John le Carré territory, thefollow-up has a conventional (if complicated) plot about a fake defector, an unclaimed Nazi fortune, Israeli avengers and getting over the Wall. However, screenwriter Evan Jones gives Michael Caine some of the most insolent, amusing Harry Palmer lines of the series. Also outstanding: Konrad Elfers’ jaunty funereal score and Oskar Homolka’s cackling Soviet spymaster, Colonel Stok.
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