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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.
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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.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Ken Russell
- 1968-01-14
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).
- Len Deighton
- 1966
Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) is a former British secret agent who has taken up work as a private detective. An anonymous party hires him to deliver a seemingly normal...
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- Michael Caine
- Ken Russell
- Drama
"Billion Dollar Brain" falls in the fatal category: it is a spy movie that commits the unforgivable sin of losing track of its plot. How can you take it seriously when the spy's mission is never made clear?
British spy-turned-detective Harry Palmer stumbles upon an oil tycoon's plot to overthrow Communism using a supercomputer.
Billion Dollar Brain (1967) -- (Movie Clip) I Want You Back At MI-5 Opening of the third Harry Palmer film from the Len Deighton espionage novels, MI-5 boss Ross (Guy Doleman) burgles the office of Michael Caine (title character), now a struggling London detective, in Billion Dollar Brain, 1967.
