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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 ...
- $1.5 million (US/Canada)
- Richard Rodney Bennett
- 20 December 1967 (US)
- Harry Saltzman
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 ...
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Billion Dollar Brain (1967) was the third film based on Len Deighton’s “Harry Palmer” secret agent novels, following The Ipcress File (1965, with a score by John Barry) and Funeral in Berlin (1966, scored by Konrad Elfers). As James Bond mania peaked globally in the 1960s, several alternative spy films challenged the supremacy of 007.
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.
- Jarno Mahlberg
The movie gets better, not worse, toward the end. After swimming in a morass of confusion for over an hour, we finally get to meet the Texas oil millionaire ( Ed Begley) who's masterminding the scheme, and Begley, turns in a biting, hilarious parody of right-wing oil millionaires. But he never explains the scheme. Advertisement.
Billion-Dollar Brain. 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). As in most of Deighton's novels, the plot of Billion ...
Near the Soviet border, double agent Anya departs on a train leaving Leo with Palmer. 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.
