The Ipcress File Filming Locations
2022 - Present
Updated: 19 March 2022
Drama
Thriller
The Ipcress File made use of Liverpool and Cheshire for various street locations whilst Croatia was also used for some locations. Main locations featured include a prison near Shrewsbury which featured as Colchester Military Prison, Liverpool Lime Street Station featuring as as Berlin station and Bolton also featuring as some London streets.
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A TV adaption of Len Deighton’s spy novel The Ipcress File, which inspired the 1965 Michael Caine film of the same name.
Harry Palmer is serving as a working-class British sergeant in Berlin as the Cold War rages in the 1960s. Palmer is a sharp and savvy operator, with varied side-hustles that ultimately land him trouble with the law for crimes that could mean an eight-year stretch in a grim English military jail. But spotting Palmer’s potential, and his network in Berlin, an intelligence officer offers him a way to avoid prison by becoming a spy. His first case is The Ipcress File — a dangerous undercover mission on which Palmer must use his links to a man suspected of kidnapping a missing British nuclear scientist.
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A bomb explodes under Jean's car and only Harry's quick-thinking saves their lives. Harry spots a suspicious stranger tailing them who is identified as Randall, a former agent.
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Harry and Jean arrive in Beirut in hot pursuit of Randall, who is holding Professor Dawson. Meanwhile, Dalby holds a secret rendezvous with Stok, a Russian colonel.
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Dalby challenges General Cathcart, suspecting American involvement in Dawson's abduction. Harry and Jean head to the Pacific atoll where the neutron bomb is to be tested.
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Harry is handed over to the Chinese military where he is subjected to a bewildering regime of mental torture. Dalby's love for Dr Lavotchkin takes its toll on his judgement.
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Harry is tormented by what has been planted in his mind as his mission reaches its bloody climax and the stability of the free world is at stake.
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