Word: ipcress
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Inevitably, Walter's return to the scenes of old cold war crimes evokes the mood and manner of '60s pop spy epics like, say, The Ipcress File. But Director Penn, whose most successful works in that period were counterculture icons like Bonnie and Clyde and Little Big Man, is not about to be nostalgic about his former competition. Target is a deadpan satire on the old cloak-and-dagger conventions almost to the end, at which point Penn cannot resist staging with self-conscious luridness a scene in which Walter must deal with a particularly sadistic bomb threat...
...When The Ipcress File and Alfie made Caine a star in the mid-'60s, he could have coasted in one film genre, one consistent, marketable personality. Instead, he says, "I treated movies as a kind of repertory. I try to do a different part every time. I've done heroes, reprobates, gangsters, adventurers. Lots of spies. Lovers, fathers, opium addicts, I've played them all. 'Cause the way I see it, I am not a movie star per se. I'm a movie actor. And the difference between the two is, when a movie star gets a script he says...