Talk:The IPCRESS File

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Need to mention Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain.
 * Done, I put them in the "See also" section. --Commander Keane 13:02, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

IMDB lists Bullet to Beijing and Midnight in St. Petersburg. as 1996 - this should change, yes?

Capitalisation error: the name of the film is the IPCRESS File, not the Ipcress File. IPCRESS is an acronym —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.96.102.152 (talk • contribs)


 * Yeeeessss... that would appear to be correct. And its what the book cover sez William M. Connolley 19:23, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

It may be worth mentioning that Deighton is said to have written The IPCRESS File in longhand in an exercise book during a vacation in France. Deighton subsequently acknowledged that the work was too terse: because of his inexperience, he expected readers to pick up and remember incidental comments or plot details. Even a number of re-readings will not necessarily explain the action satisfactorily .... Nevertheless, a striking debut in a distinctive style, still eminently readable and enjoyable.

Shoes
Maybe President Bush was thinking of this novel when he referred to size 10 shoes in the shoe-throwing incident. Size 10s are mentioned in chapter two, paragraph two, sentence two. 89.240.202.111 (talk) 10:35, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * "size tens" is familiar British slang e.g.  so not necessarily from this novel. Perhaps from his old mate Tony Blair..  Cormullion (talk) 22:24, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Clarification request
In the Plot section, the acronym IPCRESS is explained as Induction of Psycho-neuroses by Conditioned REflex with Stress", but in the Background section it is now "Induction of Psycho-neuroses by Conditioned Reflex _under_ Stress". Can we get some clarification on this??

Thanks! WesT (talk) 21:46, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

It is nowhere stated or implied that Dalby was executed
The new wording is fine, rather more subtle than the old; but the edit comment is wrong; on p 210 our hero tells the American "I told him about Dalby being killed," William M. Connolley (talk) 13:05, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

The Plot Summary is a shambles
I've just re-read the novel, and came to read the Wikipedia article out of curiosity. The plot section seems to have been edited down from a longer one, but badly, since there are references to characters (Ross, Murray and Carswell) without context. 84.13.231.137 (talk) 19:42, 12 December 2021 (UTC)Plod