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Billion Dollar Brain is a 1967 Spy Film directed by Ken Russell, based on the novel by Len Deighton. It is the third of the Harry Palmer series starring Michael Caine, following Funeral in Berlin. Françoise Dorléac, Karl Malden, Oskar Homolka, and Ed Begley also star.
The billion-dollar super-computer of the title, built by Midwinter, runs a network of spies and assassins aimed at the destruction of the Soviet Union. That interests Palmer's old friend, Soviet security chief Colonel Stok (Oskar Homolka, in an almost movie-stealing performance), very much, and he, too, wants to know what Palmer knows.
Feb 26, 2021 · The Billion Dollar Brain, The Ipcriss File and Funeral in Berlin form a trilogy of Harry Palmer films released in the late sixties and early seventies. Secret agent Harry Palmer was author Len Deighton's answer to Ian Fleming's 007, but unlike Sean Connery's suave character, Harry Palmer is a cockney ex-thief blackmailed into the British Secret ...
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Billion Dollar Brain was the third film in the original run of the Harry Palmer series, before a further two sequels followed in the 1990s. The Harry Palmer films were produced at the height of the 60s spy craze, a result of the enormous success of the James Bond series.
Her final film role was the female lead in Billion Dollar Brain (1967) opposite Michael Caine, who played spy Harry Palmer. Private life [ edit ] Dorléac’s parents were protective of her and her siblings, and well into adulthood she shared a bunk bed with her sister Catherine Deneuve in the family home, to which she regularly returned ...
"Billion Dollar Brain" (1967), directed by the iconoclastic Ken Russell, in the 1970s a firebrand of British cinema. This was the third and final Harry Palmer spy film, following "The IPCRESS File" (1965) and "Funeral in Berlin" (1966), based on Len Deighton's popular novels, Palmer had been pitched as an anti-James Bond.
Billion Dollar Brain was the third film in the original run of the Harry Palmer series, before a further two sequels followed in the 1990s. The Harry Palmer films were produced at the height of the 60s spy craze, a result of the enormous success of the James Bond series.
