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* HypotheticalCasting: Creator/LenDeighton was a fan of ''Series/SteptoeAndSon'' and envisioned Harry H. Corbett as Harry Palmer.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Producer Harry Saltzman hated director Sidney J. Furie and his oddball style. Furie later described Saltzman as "a tyrant, but a lovable tyrant".
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Producer Harry Saltzman hated director Sidney J. Furie Creator/SidneyJFurie and his oddball style. Furie later described Saltzman as "a tyrant, but a lovable tyrant".
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* ActorInspiredElement: Harry Palmer is the first action hero to wear glasses (Creator/MichaelCaine is myopic in RealLife). Caine chose to wear glasses, because he expected the film to be the first of a series, similar to the Bond movies. He feared being over-identified with the character of Harry Palmer, and so he wore the glasses, so that he could remove them for other roles.
** In the novels, the name of the lead character is never revealed. So Caine and producer Harry Saltzman tried to think of a boring name for the hero. Caine suggested "Harry" which Saltzman found rather amusing. Caine then remembered a boring classmate named Tommy Palmer. So "Palmer" became the surname.
*** This becomes doubly amusing today, as another famous literary character was given an [[Franchise/HarryPotter almost identical name]], for the exact same reason - to sound boring and ordinary.
** In the novels, the name of the lead character is never revealed. So Caine and producer Harry Saltzman tried to think of a boring name for the hero. Caine suggested "Harry" which Saltzman found rather amusing. Caine then remembered a boring classmate named Tommy Palmer. So "Palmer" became the surname.
*** This becomes doubly amusing today, as another famous literary character was given an [[Franchise/HarryPotter almost identical name]], for the exact same reason - to sound boring and ordinary.
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** Harry Palmer is the first action hero to wear glasses (Creator/MichaelCaine is myopic in RealLife). Caine chose to wear glasses, because he expected the film to be the first of a series, similar to the Bond movies. He feared being over-identified with the character of Harry Palmer, and so he wore the glasses, so that he could remove them for other roles.
** In the novels, the name of the lead character is never revealed. So Caine and producer Harry Saltzman tried to think of a boring name for the hero. Caine suggested "Harry" which Saltzman found rather amusing. Caine then remembered a boring classmate named Tommy Palmer. So "Palmer" became thesurname.
*** Thissurname.[[note]]This becomes doubly amusing today, as another famous bespectacled literary character was given an [[Franchise/HarryPotter almost identical name]], for the exact same reason - to sound boring and ordinary.[[/note]]
** Harry Palmer is the first action hero to wear glasses (Creator/MichaelCaine is myopic in RealLife). Caine chose to wear glasses, because he expected the film to be the first of a series, similar to the Bond movies. He feared being over-identified with the character of Harry Palmer, and so he wore the glasses, so that he could remove them for other roles.
** In the novels, the name of the lead character is never revealed. So Caine and producer Harry Saltzman tried to think of a boring name for the hero. Caine suggested "Harry" which Saltzman found rather amusing. Caine then remembered a boring classmate named Tommy Palmer. So "Palmer" became the
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Producer Harry Saltzman hated director Sidney J. Furie and his oddball style, and went so far as to bar him from the editing room. According to Furie, Saltzman also excluded him from the movie's party at Cannes, and even stole his best picture British Academy Award.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Producer Harry Saltzman hated director Sidney J. Furie and his oddball style, style. Furie later described Saltzman as "a tyrant, but a lovable tyrant".
** After one heated argument on location in Shepherd's Bush, Furie stormed off the set in tears, declared "Fuck it, I'm off this picture" and boarded a bus to Oxford Street. When Creator/MichaelCaine pointed Saltzman in his direction, Saltzman yelled, "Nobody leaves my set on a fucking bus" and they both gave chase in Saltzman's Rolls Royce. They managed to catch up and Saltzman yelled to the conductor, "Stop the fucking bus! You've got our director on board". Furie was persuaded to return, but relations remained frosty.
-->Harry despised me so much, he really did. But I stood my ground.
** After another week of disagreements, this again came to a head:
-->'''Furie''': Saltzman came by one day and saw the footage and thought it was the worst shit he'd ever seen and told me that when the editor Peter Hunt returned from his holiday, if he didn't like it, he was firing me. "Well fuck you, I said, and I tore up the pages of what we were shooting, "Here, you canhave it all back". And then Michael said, "no, no, just stay". Because I was walking. No producer's going to tell me the editor will decide my fate. But then a few days later Peter Hunt came back and he said, "Harry, I've just seen the rushes and you shouldn't be mad at Peter, you should kiss him". After that day, Harry never really talked to me again.
** According to Hunt:
-->Saltzman was a terrible bully towards Sid and could be towards others. I don't know why he carried this on with him. Everything was this intense battle of wills between the two of them.
** According to Creator/KenAdam, Saltzman flew into a rage upon seeing the sparsely designed set he'd designed with Furie's approval. He stormed off the set in a temper, only to return two hours later and give it a thumbs up as if nothing had happened. Adam later claimed that when he won a BAFTA for his work on the film, Saltzman practially didn't speak to him for the rest of the evening.
-->He sees this bare set and he wentso far as ape. He started screaming at me, he said, "You're trying to bar him get between me and the director". I said, "I discussed it with the director". And of course, for the unit it was great fun because tey always enjoyed a big fight going on.
** At the end of principal photography, Saltzman banned Furie from the editing room.According to Furie, Saltzman also excluded him from the movie's party at Cannes, and He even stole his best picture British Academy Award.banned anyone connected with the film to have any dealings with Furie or even talk to him, including Music/JohnBarry, who secrectly kept Furie updated on how the edit was going.
** After one heated argument on location in Shepherd's Bush, Furie stormed off the set in tears, declared "Fuck it, I'm off this picture" and boarded a bus to Oxford Street. When Creator/MichaelCaine pointed Saltzman in his direction, Saltzman yelled, "Nobody leaves my set on a fucking bus" and they both gave chase in Saltzman's Rolls Royce. They managed to catch up and Saltzman yelled to the conductor, "Stop the fucking bus! You've got our director on board". Furie was persuaded to return, but relations remained frosty.
-->Harry despised me so much, he really did. But I stood my ground.
** After another week of disagreements, this again came to a head:
-->'''Furie''': Saltzman came by one day and saw the footage and thought it was the worst shit he'd ever seen and told me that when the editor Peter Hunt returned from his holiday, if he didn't like it, he was firing me. "Well fuck you, I said, and I tore up the pages of what we were shooting, "Here, you canhave it all back". And then Michael said, "no, no, just stay". Because I was walking. No producer's going to tell me the editor will decide my fate. But then a few days later Peter Hunt came back and he said, "Harry, I've just seen the rushes and you shouldn't be mad at Peter, you should kiss him". After that day, Harry never really talked to me again.
** According to Hunt:
-->Saltzman was a terrible bully towards Sid and could be towards others. I don't know why he carried this on with him. Everything was this intense battle of wills between the two of them.
** According to Creator/KenAdam, Saltzman flew into a rage upon seeing the sparsely designed set he'd designed with Furie's approval. He stormed off the set in a temper, only to return two hours later and give it a thumbs up as if nothing had happened. Adam later claimed that when he won a BAFTA for his work on the film, Saltzman practially didn't speak to him for the rest of the evening.
-->He sees this bare set and he went
** At the end of principal photography, Saltzman banned Furie from the editing room.
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** At the start of the movie, the station announcer at Marylebone says that the train is leaving for Nottingham and Leicester, which means that it would have had to travel along the former "Great Central" route towards Sheffield. This line, one of the most modern main lines in the country, was closed the following year (1966), and most of the trackbed has since been built over or erased completely from the map.
** The supermarket in which Harry is seen shopping is Safeway, which has since been bought by the Morrisons supermarket chain.
** At the start of the movie, the station announcer at Marylebone says that the train is leaving for Nottingham and Leicester, which means that it would have had to travel along the former "Great Central" route towards Sheffield. This line, one of the most modern main lines in the country, was closed the following year (1966), and most of the trackbed has since been built over or erased completely from the map.
** The supermarket in which Harry is seen shopping is Safeway, which has since been bought by the Morrisons supermarket chain.
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** At the start of the movie, the station announcer at Marylebone saysRomanceOnTheSet: Sue Lloyd was having an affair with Sidney J. Furie, a situation that the train is leaving for Nottingham and Leicester, reached a very public boiling point:
-->Sidney arrived with his suitcases on my doorstep, whichmeans that it would have had to travel along the former "Great Central" route towards Sheffield. This line, one of the most modern main lines was not cool at all because his wife was in the country, was closed the following year (1966), and most of the trackbed has since been built over or erased completely from the map.
** The supermarket inpudding club. Harry Saltzman's wife, which Harry I didn't blame her for at all because she happened to be a great friend of Sid Furie's wife, together they decided that I should never work again. My agent told me that Saltzman had said he will see to it that you will never work again.
** It isseen shopping is Safeway, which has since been bought by unclear whether Saltzman followed up on his threat, but Lloyd's career slowed down afterwards.
-->And to think I had theMorrisons supermarket chain.same contract as Creator/MichaelCaine on ''The Ipcress File''. And I blew it.
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-->Literally, we'd get there in the morning and sometimes there were no pages. So, I'd say to our cameraman Otto Heller, take two hours to light that staircase, by which time pages arrived, we made carbon copies of them and the actors would quickly learn the lines and away we went. And that happened a lot.
-->Literally, we'd get there in the morning and sometimes there were no pages. So, I'd say to our cameraman Otto Heller, take two hours to light that staircase, by which time pages arrived, we made carbon copies of them and the actors would quickly learn the lines and away we went. And that happened a lot.
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** At the start of the movie, the station announcer at Marylebone says that the train is leaving for Nottingham and Leicester, which means that it would have had to travel along the former "Great Central" route towards Sheffield. This line, one of the most modern main lines in the country, was closed the following year (1966), and most of the trackbed has since been built over or erased completely from the map.
** The supermarket in which Harry is seen shopping is Safeway, which has since been bought by the Morrisons supermarket chain.
** At the start of the movie, the station announcer at Marylebone says that the train is leaving for Nottingham and Leicester, which means that it would have had to travel along the former "Great Central" route towards Sheffield. This line, one of the most modern main lines in the country, was closed the following year (1966), and most of the trackbed has since been built over or erased completely from the map.
** The supermarket in which Harry is seen shopping is Safeway, which has since been bought by the Morrisons supermarket chain.
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* TheRedStapler: Sales of coffee beans quadrupled following the film's release, likely inspired by the opening scene where Harry grinds his own beans and brews them in a French press.
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* LoopingLines: Harry Palmer is speaking about an American agent, but Creator/MichaelCaine's lip flaps clearly show that he actually said "CIA agent" on set and dubbed "American agent" over that shot in post.
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* ActorInspiredElement: Harry Palmer is the first action hero to wear glasses (Creator/MichaelCaine is myopic in RealLife). Caine chose to wear glasses, because he expected the film to be the first of a series, similar to the Bond movies. He feared being over-identified with the character of Harry Palmer, and so he wore the glasses, so that he could remove them for other roles.
** In the novels, the name of the lead character is never revealed. So Caine and producer Harry Saltzman tried to think of a boring name for the hero. Caine suggested "Harry" which Saltzman found rather amusing. Caine then remembered a boring classmate named Tommy Palmer. So "Palmer" became the surname.
** In the novels, the name of the lead character is never revealed. So Caine and producer Harry Saltzman tried to think of a boring name for the hero. Caine suggested "Harry" which Saltzman found rather amusing. Caine then remembered a boring classmate named Tommy Palmer. So "Palmer" became the surname.
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* ProductionPosse: Quite a few Film/JamesBond alumni worked on the film - producer Harry Saltzman, composer Music/JohnBarry, production designer Creator/KenAdam and editor Peter Hunt.
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** Creator/ChristopherPlummer turned down the role of Harry Palmer in order to star in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', while Creator/RichardHarris turned it down in favour of ''Caprice'' with Doris Day, a film he wound up despising. Both men regretted the decision.
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** Creator/ChristopherPlummer turned down the role of Harry Palmer in order to star in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', while Creator/RichardHarris turned it down in favour of ''Caprice'' ''Film/{{Caprice}}'' with Doris Day, Creator/DorisDay, a film he wound up despising. Both men regretted the decision.
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* DeletedRole: Barbara Roscoe had a role in the film, and appears in promotional stills. But her scenes were deleted from the final print.
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** Creator/ChristopherPlummer turned down the role of Harry Palmer in order to star in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', while Creator/RichardHarris turned it down in favour of ''Caprice'' with Doris Day, a film he wound up despising. Both men regretted the decision.
** Creator/JoanCollins had been considered for Jean Courtney.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/ChristopherPlummer turned down the role of Harry Palmer in order to star in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', while Creator/RichardHarris turned it down in favour of ''Caprice'' with Doris Day, a film he wound up despising. Both men regretted the decision.
** Creator/JoanCollins had been considered for Jean Courtney.
