Rank the Harry Palmer films.

I've been watching this series for years now, great characters and locations.

I like the Ipcress File best. It's unique really in it's atmosphere and intrigue.

Billion Dollar Brain comes next. It's very different to Ipcress in it's style and execution but is strangely poetic in places and has great dialogue.

Funeral in Berlin comes in a very close third. Great Cold War era Berlin locales and the most realistic storyline in the series I think. It's a little dry and slower in pace than the rest however still a classic.

Bullet to Beijing - we come into the 1990's here. Not as good as the 60's films but I enjoy this one quite a lot. Michael Caine gives his most nuanced performance as Harry Palmer who is now getting older, lonely and knows that his MI5 days are numbered. Great post soviet Russia locations and tone.

Lastly is Midnight in Saint Petersburg, also the last one made. This was made for television so everything is downgraded in this compared to the rest. Everything about this is routine and forgettable unfortunately. The dialogue is wooden in places along with some of the actors. It's nice to watch Michael Caine play Harry Palmer (although he looks bored here) and it's nice to see St. Petersburg but that's about it for me on this one.

It's a great and largely under known series these days so I hope you will get to see them all and enjoy them as I have!

I think it's pretty straight forward... each subsequent film was weaker than the one that came before. There was only a slight falling off of quality between Ipcress and Berlin, but SHARP fallings off between each successive film after that.