Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of billion dollar brain with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at. Having left britains espionage service, palmer is scraping out a living as a private. When a famous continental star agrees to attend, things get out of hand. Albums include billion dollar brain, the hammer film music collection volume two, and a garland for linda. An anonymous party hires him to deliver a seemingly normal package to helsinki.
This is a film full of twists and double bluffs, you need to pay attention otherwise its easy to become bewildered and lose the plot. Billion dollar brain 1967 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Jun 24, 2014 the asheville film society will screen billion dollar brain tuesday, july 1, at 8 p. Michael caine and karl malden in billion dollar brain 1967 michael caine in. Even ken russell has changed his original negative assessment of it. The quality of the original film is not great, but it does encapsulate well how the film series had developed and become bigger in scope, for example including a major battle. Its a shame that billion dollar brain strayed so far from the template of the previous films, but its by no means all bad, and can be reasonably entertaining if youre in the right mood. Billion dollar brain not rated 1h 51min crime, thriller 14 january 1968 uk a former british spy stumbles onto a plot to overthrow communism with the help of a supercomputer. Billion dollar brain is een spionagefilm uit 1967 van ken russell, gebaseerd op het. Billion dollar brain doesnt know what it wants to be when it grows up a mostly disappointing end to the original harry palmer trilogy thats far too overthetop and selfconsciously wacky to make a decent followup to funeral in berlin, or the ipcress file, but also lacking in sufficient quantities of ken russells patented pixie dust of delirious perversion and frantically melodramatic. Karl malden full list of movies and tv shows in theaters, in production and upcoming films. Billion dollar brain is a little odd politically in its rather benign vision of the ussr.
This much rarer style b poster features some equally outthere fluorescent pop art. Were your movie poster source for new releases and vintage movie posters. The uk cinema release was cut to get an a rating to shorten the struggle. Caine below zero the making of the billion dollar brain 1968. After two earlier low key harry palmer vehicles, ken russell pulls out all the stops to outdo james bond. The film is full of great little details and every line is effective, it does stretch plausabilty at times the supercomputer the billion dollar brain of the title now doesnt seem very super, but its still more believable than many other spy films. The video for billion dollar brain has been given a 1080pmpeg4 avc that is displayed at an aspect ratio of 2. Nov 10, 2014 thriller 1967 111 minutes color harry palmer has left the british secret service and become a private detective. Susan melody george born 26 july 1950 is an english film and television actress. Billion dollar brain from 1967 could have been the start of a wealthy career for russell, his second film but this one commissioned by the james bond producer harry saltzman, story by novelist len deighton and with michael caine starring in his third harry palmer role. However, he also told interviewer john baxter that, whilst he had spent years apologising for the film, he had seen billion dollar brain on television in the early 1970s and realised that it. Billion dollar brain 1967 was the third film based on len deightons 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. The kinolorber edition of billion dollar brain seems to be the exact same.
Harry palmer has left the british secret service and become a private detective. Legendary filmmaker ken russell altered states directed this 3rd and final film. Not a patch on the ipcress file and funeral in berlin. A former british spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow communism with the help of a supercomputer. Its harry palmers wits against the worlds deadliest mind. Harry palmer michael caine, the reluctant secret agent from the ipcress file 1965 and funeral in berlin 1966 both like the source for this movie based on novels by len deighton is back again in ken russells billion dollar brain. I reiterate that harry palmer is the name given to the character by the filmmakers of the three michael caine movies, though harry goes under the working name of liam dempsey in this novel. Music profile for richard rodney bennett, born 29 march 1936. Billion dollar brain is a 1967 britishamerican technicolor espionage film directed by ken russell and based on the novel of the same name by len deighton. There is a panscan alternate encoding on the flip side. Len deighton, english author, journalist, film producer, and a leading writer of spy stories, his bestknown being his first, the ipcress file 1962, an account of deception and betrayal in an espionage agency. Billion dollar brain is a 1966 cold war spy novel by len deighton. The real purpose is to open the plot and make it more colourful, and also the opportunity to satirise entrenched positions and the madness of humanity.
Midwinter proudly displays his billiondollar brain, a room full of computers dispensing orders to his agents around the. Harry palmer returns in oddly and disappointingly bombastic style. With a great deal of history and interesting facts about the actors, this, the third in the series and the last actual theatre release of the harry palmer series, it lacks the feel of the previous two films and the time period is a bit old now. Brain michael caine is back in his third outing as harry palmer in the ken russell directed billion dollar brain, a wonderfully crazy 60s brit spy romp. Billion dollar brain dvd, 2005 for sale online ebay. Billion dollar brain soundtrack details home explore movies explore composers resource directory forums contact us about us search on. One of his first assignments is to deliver an apparently innocent thermos flask to an old friend in helsinki, palmer is suspicious of the flask contents and begins to doubt the motives of his friend and those of his boss a texan billionaire. It is the only film in which ken russell worked as a mainstream directorforhire, and the last film of francoise dorleac. Complete with lovingly lethal femme fatales and diabolical madmen aspiring toward world domination, harry palmer risks life and limb while coping with more mundane issues such the inevitable language barrier faced by english speaking agents in far off countries. The radiant francoise dorleac is better remembered today as the elder, illfated sister of french film star catherine deneuve. He views the contents of the flask with the aid of a pedoscope a primitive foot xray machine that every upmarket shoe shop once had at whiteleys in queensway, w2, the bayswater megadepartment store tube. Billion dollar brain on dvd 738329141127 from kino video.
Kees stams excellent harry palmer movie site hosts a rarely seen making of short featuring michael caine talking about his third outing as harry palmer. Secret agent harry palmer michael caine, get carter is blackmailed into. Billiondollar brain is a 1966 cold war spy novel by len deighton. Le film billion dollar brain 1967 vostfr admin 20170630t18. Ultimately the film is let down by rather wild and undisciplined direction and a cartoonish finale.
Thriller 1967 111 minutes color harry palmer has left the british secret service and become a private detective. Billion dollar brain by len deighton, first edition abebooks. Le film billion dollar brain 1967 vostfr film complet. The opening title sequence looks a bit dirty and damaged, but the image is much cleaner throughout the remainder of the film with black and white specks appearing on rare occasion. Mar 26, 2015 billion dollar brain 1966 is the most readable of len deightons first four woocp secret agent books, and also the lightest in tone relativelywere not talking austin powers here. Born into a theatrical family in 1942 her father was actor maurice. The billiondollar supercomputer of the title, built by midwinter, runs a network of. Downatheel cellist wanda fleming bette davis does her shopping here in 1970 drama connecting rooms. Sam russell je, prema vlastitom svjedocenju, film snimio protiv svoje volje, vezan ugovornim obavezama. A year after billion dollar brain was released, russian tanks crushed the prague spring, an act of ruthless efficiency the professional in stok would have admired. Billion dollar brain gets a lot of mileage out of this wintry discontent. However, he learns that he has been deceived into working for the secret service again, and is actually returning stolen virusinfected eggs to a government lab.
Apr 07, 2016 watch billion dollar brain michael goldman on dailymotion. It was the fourth to feature an unnamed secret agent working for the british woocp intelligence agency. But the film gets the political mechanism of war 100% correct it creates opportunities for war profiteers to earn steal. The billion dollar brain is the 4th of four novels in the series, beginning wthe ipcress file, which were adapted to film starring michael caine as harry palmer. Billion dollar brain is a little odd politically in that the repressive ussr was no beacon of good management or government, and needed to be dismantled. Apart from two lackluster cable tv movies in the 1990s, billion dollar brain was the last harry palmer. Altered states directed this third and final film in the great harry palmer series. New shortfilms watch billion dollar brain full movie. Watch billion dollar brain online stream full movie.
Honey, i shrunk the kids the tv show s03 ep02 honey, its a billion dollar brain hd watch. This is the complete filmography of actor donald sutherland. Whiteleys department store, queensway, london w2 he views the contents of the flask with the aid of a pedoscope a primitive foot xray machine that every upmarket shoe shop once had at whiteleys in queensway, w2, the bayswater megadepartment store tube. The swift destruction of midwinters army can be seen as a grim forewarning. Billion dollar brain movie posters from movie poster shop. The film features michael caine as secret agent harry palmer, the antihero protagonist. The kremlin wouldnt allow a top colonel to be chums with a british spy, let alone allow him to wander around latvia taking photographs. While filming billion dollar brain 1968 at pinewood studies with michael. Year 1968 poster type us 1 sheet 27 x 41 inches style b art by r. The complex main theme, built on a beautifully complex.
The store has since been given a major makeover and now also houses an. Making the film was such a struggle and its reception so dispiriting that for years after i automatically ran it down to everyone. Billy williams shooting billion dollar brain at pinewood with ken. Harry palmer, the bland antiheroic secret agent of the ipcress file and funeral in berlin, the chap who hates his job and doesnt care what kind of dry vermouth they put in his martinis, is back with his spectacles and his nonu english accent in billion dollar brain. Inventiveness in the field of soundtracks doesnt necessarily equate with success, and richard rodney bennetts score for ken russells movie billion dollar brain is a case in point. It follows the ipcress file 1962, horse under water 1963, and funeral in berlin 1964. Sonys release under the mgm label of billion dollar brain is a handsome enhanced transfer with solid mono tracks that no longer distort in the musical passages. Which is to say, harry palmer is the spy who never gets to come in from. Billion dollar brain 1966 harry palmer michael caine movie site.
As james bond mania peaked globally in the 1960s, several alternative spy films challenged the supremacy of 007. If youd like to have an inclass viewing, oncampus screening, or purchase the dvd for your librarys collection, please contact estelle grosso or call 212 6296880 with your request. Caines acting career began in the 1950s, when he was cast in many small, often uncredited roles in british films. Interested in bringing billion dollar brain to your school or library. Billion dollar brain, dvd, action adventure, 738329141127. The brain of the title is a sophisticated computer with which an anticommunist organisation controls its worldwide antisoviet spy network. Billion dollar brain is the third of the harry palmer film series, preceded by the ipcress file 1965 and funeral in berlin 1966. However, with billion dollar brain maverick director ken russell presents the audience with an outlandish plot and large futuristic sets, which seem at odds with the style of its predecessors. How can you take it seriously when the spys mission is never made clear. Its the 1960s and the cold war between the us and soviet union is at its height. Watch billion dollar brain michael goldman on dailymotion. Of course, the events in brain are no less credible.
Deneuve went on to a magnificent career and remains one of frances most esteemed and beautiful film actresses. She had completed work on one more film after the young girls of rochefort. Billion dollar brain enjoys a much better reputation today and is often considered the liveliest and most stylish entry in the harry palmer series. Billion dollar brain is a 1967 britishamerican technicolor espionage film directed by ken. Buy billion dollar brain movie posters from movie poster shop. Spy movies were winding down in 1967 with 007 becoming a silly selfparody. The 1st was the ipcress file universal, 1965 and the 2nd was. Billion dollar brain 1968 original us sheet style b film.
The billion dollar brain, united artists, 1967 in the great harry palmer series starring michael caine. Billiondollar brain and millions of other books are available for instant access. Billion dollar brain 1967 tt0061405 a former british spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow communism with the help of a supercomputer. British intelligence officer harry palmer discovers that a mad rich american is trying. It has all the subversiveness of a ken russell film so his fans will probably enjoy. I have now finished the fourth and last harry palmer novel from len deighton, namely. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing billion dollar brain near you. The main buzz about billion dollar brain is a deleted scene, or part of a scene that has kept the film off home video until now. A hd uploaded trailer for the 1967 michael caine film. Caine gained recognition as one of the most famous actors of the 1960s through his breakthrough role in the film zulu 1964. Deighton was educated at the royal college of art, london, after service in the royal. Not rated 1h 51min crime, thriller 14 january 1968 uk.
The parisborn actress, however, was actually the first to become a star and had quite a formidable career of her own in the 1960s until it was cut short. Staring michael caine, karl malden, francoise dorleac and oscar homolka. Harry palmer michael caine is a former british secret agent who has taken up work as a private detective. The result is that the film appears to be aping bond, and as such the character of palmer is less effective. When, through faulty scripting or editing, the characters greet people they arent supposed to know. Michael caine is an english actor who has appeared in over films and has had multiple television appearances. It sold in only a fraction of the numbers that john barrys james bond soundtracks of the same era did, but it was more inventive than any of the bond scores. Billion dollar brain 1967 letterboxd your life in film.