David Niven
Col. Carol Matthews
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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.
- (4.4K)
- 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.
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.
- (2.3K)
- DDL Cinematografica, S.N.E. Gaumont
- Gérard Oury
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.
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.
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The Brain (French: Le Cerveau) is a 1969 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, about a second train robbery by the brains of the Great Train Robbery.
