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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. The "brain" of the title is a sophisticated computer [2] with which an anti-communist organisation controls its ...
Harry Palmer’s dingy digs, over the surgical appliance shop, are 297 Pentonville Road, N1, at the junction with Gray’s Inn Road opposite Kings Cross Station (now famous from the Harry Potter films). The area’s been given a bit of a facelift since the redevelopment of St Pancras International railway station. Billion Dollar Brain location ...
Dec 21, 2012 · Location filming for Billion Dollar Brain took place in Helsinki and other parts of Finland, including Turku. The Riga scenes were filmed in Porvoo, also in Finland. Scenes involving "The Brain" were filmed in Honeywell facilities and featured a Honeywell 200 mini-computer. The remainder of the film was shot in the United Kingdom.
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Following The Ipcress File (1965) and Funeral in Berlin (1966), producer Harry Saltzman turned to up-and-coming British director Ken Russell to direct Billion Dollar Brain and wound up with the most wildly surreal, and strangely poetic, film in the Harry Palmer series. Michael Caine's Palmer turns to the private eye business but is forced back ...
Manuel Gurtner advises that this scene was filmed at Nikkilä station on the broad gauge branch line from Kerava to Porvoo. Passenger traffic was discontinued in 1981 and the platforms and sidings have been dismantled since 1997.
Jul 1, 2006 · Billion Dollar Brain. Director: Ken Russell. Screenwriter: John McGrath. Starring: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Oscar Homolka, Françoise Dorleac. Release details: United Artists, UK 1967, 111 mins. Full details: IMDb. Genre: Cold War thriller. Rating: 7 out of 10. Choosing Ken Russell as director of the third Harry Palmer film was a ...
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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.
