Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...door is left open, of course, because the voice belongs to Michael Caine, and every word he speaks these days is received as attentively as a ransom note. In the year and a half since his role as the bemused, workaday spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File shot him to sudden international splendor, Caine, 33, has appeared in four films, of which three-Funeral in Berlin, Alfie and Gambit-are among the nation's top box-office draws. A fifth picture, Hurry Sundown, with Jane Fonda, opened last week in Los Angeles. Now in Finland filming another Harry...
...best of the lot. But more recently the Bond hacks have begun to get their hands in to the new field. Guy Hamilton, a hack if ever there was one, has directed Funeral in Berlin, a clumsy, convoluted, illegitimate offspring of The Ipcress File in which agent Harry Palmer, again played by Michael Caine, proves a powerful bore. The direction is admittedly undistinguished, but the script to Funeral really takes the cake: the spy sets out to get an East German big-wig out of East Berlin; naturally the unsuspecting audience assumes this is what the picture is about...
Beneath the roughage, Funeral has nice touches, not one of them remotely technical. Palmer is one spy who uses public transportation. When his superior orders him to elimi ate an untrustworthy comrade, he replies incredulously, "I'm not going to kill anyone in cold blood." In other words...
...HOPE DESERT CLASSIC GOLF TOURNAMENT (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Among the pros: Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Billy Casper. Among the celebrities: Ray Bolger, Joey Bishop, James Garner, Andy Williams, Harry James. The place: Bermuda Dunes Country Club, Palm Springs, Calif. (Finals at La Quinta Country Club will be broadcast Sunday...
...bored. On the 535-yd. eleventh hole, Jack swung mightily for the pin. The ball missed the pond all right-but wound up instead in a bunker off the green. That cost him a stroke and the tournament lead: one stroke behind Billy Casper, tied with Arnold Palmer. "Pure Fun." Back to Pebble Beach for the last round went Casper, Nicklaus and Palmer, the three top money winners of 1966-and for that matter of all time (total earnings: $1,875,759). Now was Jack's chance to show everybody who was really the world's best golfer...