The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
FUNERAL IN BERLIN
Thursday, Film4, 4:30pm
The second film in the Harry Palmer series is a densely-plotted Cold War thriller in which the laconic spy (a perfectly cast Michael Caine) is sent on a mission to facilitate the defection of a Communist agent who has important military secrets at his disposal. This tricky manoeuvre is further complicated by the presence of an Israeli agent on the hunt for Nazi war criminals.