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* BritsLoveTea: Heavily subverted; not only is Harry Palmer a coffee man, he even grinds his coffee beans himself. Of course, [[Franchise/JamesBond he's not the only British spy to prefer a decent cup of coffee in the morning]].
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* MustHaveCaffeine: In that same opening scene, Palmer grinds some espresso beans and runs them through a French press - simultaneously showing he's a man with particular tastes (TheSixties was [[BadToTheLastDrop the age of the percolator and instant coffee]]) and averting [[BritsLoveTea what you'd expect a British spy to start his day with]].
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* MustHaveCaffeine: In that same opening scene, Palmer grinds some espresso beans and runs them through a French press - simultaneously showing he's a man with particular tastes (TheSixties was [[BadToTheLastDrop the age of the percolator and instant coffee]]) and averting [[BritsLoveTea what you'd expect a British spy to start his day with]].with]] — although [[Franchise/JamesBond the most famous fictional British spy of them all]] would doubtless approve of his preference for good coffee.
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* SpyFiction: Definitely Stale Beer flavoured. Also an interesting example because it was made by the Bond films' production posse as a more down-to-earth alternative to the increasingly Martini-flavoured Bonds.[[note]] The Martini flavour had only just ascended from being an UnbuiltTrope, too, with the previous year's ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}.''[[/note]] It was made the same year as fellow Stale Beer spy yarns ''Film/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' and ''Series/DangerMan'', but almost looks subversive in retrospect compared to Bond, ''Series/{{The Avengers|1960s}}'', and the like.
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* SpyFiction: Definitely Stale Beer flavoured. Also an interesting example because it was made by the Bond films' production posse as a more down-to-earth alternative to the increasingly Martini-flavoured Bonds.[[note]] The Martini flavour had only just ascended from being an UnbuiltTrope, too, with the previous year's ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}.''[[/note]] It was made the same year as fellow Stale Beer spy yarns ''Film/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' ''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' and ''Series/DangerMan'', but almost looks subversive in retrospect compared to Bond, ''Series/{{The Avengers|1960s}}'', and the like.
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* CreatorCameo: A particular example. When Harry Palmer goes to make his date a meal, the hands doing the cooking and cracking the eggs are those of the original novel writer, Len Deighton.
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* CreatorCameo: A particular example. When Harry Palmer goes to make makes his date a meal, the hands doing the cooking and cracking the eggs are those of the original novel writer, Len Deighton.Deighton -- who was also an accomplished cookery writer, having written and drawn the cookstrips for ''The Observer'', some of which can be seen pinned to the wall in Harry's kitchen.
