Talk:Harry Palmer

Tussaud picture
The waxwork is clearly meant to be Caine, but as he appeared in The Ipcress File? Really? The hair is longer, the face is fuller and the glasses are different. I know Tussaud dummies are of variable quality, but this resembles MC at least 20 years after he made the film. MongogramForCandy (talk) 10:30, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

I think the business about the former scientologist and his programme for self-improvement is non-famous, advertising, and vanity. If the name wasn't also of an apparently well known fictional character, this would be Votes for deletion material. Smerdis of Tlön 01:10, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * This Harry Palmer is completely unrelated to the one you mention. The Yeti 03:32, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

More on origin of name
This is my own observation but check it out!

In the first novel, The Ipcress File, the unnamed narrator states in chapter five, "My name isn't Harry, but in this business it's hard to remember whether it ever had been." On the previous page the spy steals a suspicious man's wallet: "I stuffed them back, palmed the wallet, said "O.K." to the protesting hostess." This proximity between the word "palmed" and the spy being addressed as "Harry" (only 24 lines)could have conceivably acted as a subconcious prompt to the film-makers when choosing the name.Daisyabigael 15:17, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Book jacket
The book jacket for one of Deighton's books claimed that many of the books that are disputed as featuring "Harry Palmer" did in fact feature him.

11:13, 8 June 2007 (UTC)Enda80

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Rights to name
Who actually owns the rights to the name ? Any idea ? -- Beardo (talk) 03:46, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Same bloke or not?
It seems unlikely to me that the protagonist of "The IPCRESS File" and its immediate sequels is the same person as the equally-anonymous protagonist of "Yesterday's Spy". While both had seen service in WW2, the former seems to have been regular Army while the latter was SOE. I'm not even sure that the bloke in "An Expensive Place To Die" is "Harry Palmer". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr Larrington (talk • contribs) 11:46, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

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