“Blue Ice” is the polite term for the contents of aircraft toilets that sometimes fall from the sky frozen.
The film opens with baggy-eyed, droopy-jawed ex-MI6 agent Harry Anders (Michael Caine) attending the funeral of a chap who had been struck down in this way.
Harry was forced out of the security service after he bounced a Czech from the top of a tall building and now owns a jazz club in London.
Harry’s quiet life is upended when beautiful American woman, Stacy Mansdorf (Sean Young), accidentally reverses her car into his.
Stacy – who turns out to be the wife of the US Ambassador – discovers Harry’s intelligence background and begs him to help her find a missing ex-lover who is threatening to ruin her reputation.
Harry agrees, but quickly finds himself framed for murder and pulled back into a dark web of international arms smuggling, rogue intelligence operatives, and a deadly government cover-up.
After his beloved jazz club is bombed, Harry turns vigilante, teaming up with an old MI6 contact, Sam Garcia (Bob Hoskins), to confront his sinister former boss, the bitter and twisted spymaster Sir Hector (Ian Holm).
Australian director Russell Mulcahy – who cut his teeth making music videos (and it shows) – wastes no opportunity to include a double-decker bus, red phone box, British Bobby in a pointy helmet or other clichés of “Gawd Bless Ya Guvnor” London.
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts appears in a brief cameo as a drummer in Harry’s club.
Harry Anders
Michael Caine Stacy Mansdorf
Sean Young Sir Hector
Ian Holm Buddy
Bobby Short Osgood
Alun Armstrong George
Sam Kelly Stevens
Jack Shepherd Westy
Phil Davis Old Woman at Funeral
Patricia Hayes Lewis Mandorf
Alan MacNaughtan Kyle
Todd Boyce Medic
Peter Forbes Stacy’s Driver
Oliver Haden Blackner
Philip Whitchurch Fleming
Nigel Harrison Sam Garcia
Bob Hoskins Sir Hector’s Aide
James Simmons
Director
Russell Mulcahy
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Harry’s quiet life is upended when beautiful American woman, Stacy Mansdorf (Sean Young), accidentally reverses her car into his.
Australian director Russell Mulcahy – who cut his teeth making music videos (and it shows) – wastes no opportunity to include a double-decker bus, red phone box, British Bobby in a pointy helmet or other clichés of “Gawd Bless Ya Guvnor” London.
Harry Anders
Buddy
