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The Brain: Directed by Gérard Oury. With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven, Eli Wallach. When NATO transfers some of its funds from Paris to Brussels by train, a criminal mastermind posing as a British colonel plans to steal it but two petty French thieves also have the same intent.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Crime
- Gérard Oury
- 1969-11-13
The Brain (French: Le Cerveau) is a 1969 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, about a second train robbery by the brain behind the Great Train Robbery of 1963. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Bourvil as a pair of French petty crooks, David Niven as a British Army officer who is secretly a criminal mastermind and Eli Wallach as a Sicilian mafioso.
The Brain, wanted by the police for the Glasgow-London train robbery, leaves his villa in Sicily, hires Mafia chief Scannapieco, and heads for Paris, where he is assigned as security guard for a train carrying $12 million to NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Release date: March 7, 1969 🎶Diabolically cool, they call him the Brain 🎶 Comedy about a perfect crime: simply rob a train as it delivers millions of dollars, then watch as various criminal gangs try to outrace each other to the cash. David Niven is the Brain, plus all the glorious fashions and Mod lifestyles of the 1960s.
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- Gérard Oury
Film Review. A fter the immense success of Le Corniaud (1964) and La Grande vadrouille (1966) - two of the most popular films ever made in France - director Gérard Oury had great ambitions for his next film. With a colossal budget of 24 million francs, Le Cerveau was conceived as gutsy blockbuster parody of the American heist thriller, with a ...
- Gérard Oury
Un mafioso. Frank Valois. ... Bruno (as Fernand Valois) Dominique Zardi. ... Un gardien de prison. Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Roland Monk.
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The Brain ( Le Cerveau in French) is a 1969 French heist comedy film directed by Gérard Oury and starring David Niven, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil and Eli Wallach. Two clumsy French thieves, Anatole (Bourvil) and Arthur (Belmondo), plan a spectacular heist: the attack of a freight train which carries secret NATO funds from Paris to Brussels.
