"Actor: Freda Bamford"

• The Ipcress File | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £17.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the spy-crazed film world of the 1960s, Len Deighton's antihero Harry Palmer burst onto the scene as an antidote to the James Bond films. Here was a British spy who had a working-class accent and horn-rimmed glasses and above all really didn't want to be a spy in the first place. As portrayed by Michael Caine, Palmer was the perfect antithesis to Sean Connery's 007. Unlike that of his globetrotting spy cousin, Palmer's beat is cold, rainy, dreary London, where he spends his days and nights in unheated flats spying on subversives. He does charm one lady, but she's no Pussy Galore, just a civil servant he works with, sent to keep an eye on him. Eventually he's assigned to get to the bottom of the kidnapping and subsequent "brain draining" of a nuclear physicist, all the while being reminded by his superiors that it's this or prison. Things begin to get pretty hairy for Harry. Produced by Harry Saltzman in his spare time between Bond movies, the film also features a haunting score by another Bond veteran, composer John Barry. --Kristian St. Clair, Amazon.com

• Three Bites of the Apple | DVD | (16/06/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Heights Of Danger | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A big garage profiteer seeks to sabotage a British father and his children's chances of winning an Alpine motor car rally the 500 prize money from which would preserve their small and struggling garage business. Continental motor racing adventure Heights of Danger (1953) features Basil Appleby and Freda Bamford but the real star is the MG TD Sports Car - tenacious and reliable to the last amidst the twisting and mountainous road condtions through the picturesque Edelweiss Pass and through all the villain's devious attempts to scupper its ultimate victory!