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Billion Dollar Brain is a 1967 British espionage film directed by Ken Russell and based on the 1966 novel Billion-Dollar Brain by Len Deighton. The film features Michael Caine as secret agent Harry Palmer, the anti-hero protagonist.
Billion Dollar Brain: Directed by Ken Russell. With Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Oscar Homolka. British spy-turned-detective Harry Palmer stumbles upon an oil tycoon's plot to overthrow Communism using a supercomputer.
Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) is a former British secret agent who has taken up work as a private detective. An anonymous party hires him to deliver a seemingly...
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"Billion Dollar Brain" falls in the fatal category: it is a spy movie that commits the unforgivable sin of losing track of its plot. How can you take it seriously when the spy's mission is never made clear?
Billion-Dollar Brain is a 1966 Cold War spy novel by Len Deighton. It was the fourth to feature an unnamed secret agent working for the British WOOC (P) intelligence agency. It follows The IPCRESS File (1962), Horse Under Water (1963), and Funeral in Berlin (1964).
British spy-turned-detective Harry Palmer stumbles upon an oil tycoon's plot to overthrow Communism using a supercomputer. Harry Palmer has left the British Secret Service and become a private detective.
The third installment in the Harry Palmer series, Billion Dollar Brain relies on a conventional "Cold War" narrative while incorporating inventive twists and turns that correspond to today's trepidations about terrorism and homeland security. Featuring the prolific Michael Caine as the central protagonist Harry Palmer, viewers quickly learn of ...
Billion Dollar Brain. 1967 · 1 hr 48 min. TV-PG. Drama · Thriller. An oil tycoon bent on destroying communism via a new world war and a super computer meets his match in a detective blackmailed into rejoining MI5. Subtitles: English. Starring: Michael Caine Ed Begley Karl Malden Françoise Dorléac Oscar Homolka. Directed by: Ken Russell.
Overview. A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
Billion Dollar Brain is a 1967 British Technicolor espionage film directed by Ken Russell and based on the novel of the same name by Len Deighton. The film features Michael Caine as secret agent Harry Palmer, the anti-hero protagonist.
