From the Mirror archives

September 21, 1964

A young Michael Caine on the set of gritty spy film The Ipcress File. Set up as deliberately anti-Bond in its unglamorous depiction of the world of espionage, the film sees Caine as secret agent Harry Palmer, a working-class Londoner who lives in a flat and has to put up with red tape and petty rivalries. It won the Best British film BAFTA in 1965 and there were two sequels, Funeral in Berlin in 1966 and Billion Dollar Brain in 1967.