Billion Dollar Brain
1967
A second motion picture outing for anti-hero spy Harry Palmer who, since his work deciphering the riddles surrounding 'The Ipcress File' has decided to break away from the Secret Service and make a living as a private investigator. This time he is sucked into a web of conspiracy involving General Midwinter, a fanatically anti-.. Read more
| Starring | Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Oscar Homolka, Francoise Dorleac |
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| Director | Ken Russell |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
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Billion Dollar Brain
A second motion picture outing for anti-hero spy Harry Palmer who, since his work deciphering the riddles surrounding 'The Ipcress File' has decided to break away from the Secret Service and make a living as a private investigator. This time he is sucked into a web of conspiracy involving General Midwinter, a fanatically anti-communist Texan billionaire who devises a violent plan to bring about a regime change in the Soviet Union.
| Starring | Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Oscar Homolka, Francoise Dorleac, Ed Begley |
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| Director | Ken Russell |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 43 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 04 Sep 2004 Production year: 1967 |
| Format | DVD |
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The third of the Harry Palmer pictures has a story that smacks of substandard James Bond, as Michael Caine travels to Finland to infiltrate power-crazed Ed Begley's secret organisation and prevent him from taking over the world. Ken Russell was perhaps an unlikely choice as director, but his exuberance prevents the plot from lapsing into predictability. Catherine Deneuve's sister Françoise Dorleac impresses in her last performance before she was killed in a car crash.
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Incomprehensible spy story smothered in the kind of top dressing now expected from this director, but which almost killed his career at the time. Occasional pictorial pleasures, but the total kaleidoscopic effect is enough to drive most audiences to the e
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
A bondesque romp
An interesting typical 60's film - Ken Russell and Harry Saltzman in combination to produce an eccentric and engaging film. Michael Caine dons the Harry Palmer spy persona running around Finland and Latvia trying to infiltrate a bond style organisation.
Surprisingly this has stood up well given it is approaching 40 years old - and with the subtext of the plot on good and evil this is a sardonic and insightful view on American imperialism that fits well to the world we now live in. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
slow but keep with it
The Third Michael Cain Harry Palmer Thriller in the series .Slow and not as interesting as Funeral In Berlin and Ipcress File . Different director. But worth keeping till the end of the film
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Caine keen to bring agent Palmer back
- 14 Sep 2009
Movie veteran Michael Caine is looking to bring back his most famous character for one last hurrah. The actor played spy Harry Palmer in three movies in the mid 1960s - The Ipcress File, Funeral In Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain - and he's keen to bring the bespectacled Cold War superagent back to life one more time. He tells WENN, "I have a script called Cold War Requiem, which is Harry retired and he's living out his fantasy in some middle class area in London and the guys who he screwed... Read more
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A second motion picture outing for anti-hero spy Harry Palmer who, since his work deciphering the riddles surrounding 'The Ipcress File' has decided to break away from the Secret Service and make a ... -