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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.
- Gérard Oury
- 3 min
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.
- $3.6 million
- Alain Poiré
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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.
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- 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. The mastermind (David Niven) of Britain's great train robbery plans to rob a French train of NATO money bound for Brussels.
- Comedy
Cast & Crew. Releases. Related. Share on. facebook. twitter. Synopsis by Hal Erickson. The Brain (Le Cerveau) is a tongue-in-cheek caper film with more twists and turns than a rural Oregon highway. David Niven plays The Brain, so named because it was he who mapped out the British Great Train Robbery (it says here).
