The billion dollar brain

Movie
German title	The billion dollar brain
Original title	Trillion dollar brain
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	1967
length	111 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Ken Russell
script	John McGrath
production	Harry Saltzman , André De Toth
music	Richard Rodney Bennett
camera	Billy Williams
cut	Alan Osbiston
occupation
Michael Caine : Harry Palmer Karl Malden : Leo Newbigen Ed Begley : General Midwinter Oskar Homolka : KGB Colonel Stok Françoise Dorléac : Anya Guy Doleman : Colonel Ross Vladek Sheybal : Dr. Word Milo Sperber : Basil Mark Elwes : Birkenshaw Donald Sutherland : Scientist at the Computer Susan George : Latvian girl on the train Frederick Schrecker : Old man on the train Stanley Caine : GPO delivery man

The billion dollar brain (original title: Billion Dollar Brain ) is after Ipcress - Top Secret (1965) and Finale in Berlin (1966) the last part of the Harry Palmer trilogy based on Len Deighton 's novel of the same name with Michael Caine in the leading role. There were two other films in the series in the 1990s.

action

The Texan oil billionaire and ex-general Midwinter, who wants to go to the field in religious megalomania with the help of bacterial and psychological warfare against godless communism, has built a private army especially for this purpose. His computers have worked out an exact insurrection plan for Latvia , but unfortunately with incorrect data, because the underground movement there - apart from a few loners - only exists in the brain of a greedy employee who lets the support flow into his own pocket. In addition, the Soviet secret service ( KGB ) has long been informed. And when midwinter's armies move across the ice of the Gulf of Finland , a few bombs are enough to turn the white runway into a wet mass grave. The British agent Harry Palmer, initially quite tired of the secret service, is sent back and forth between the fronts, but survives all attacks as a fair Englishman.

Production notes

The title sequence created Maurice Binder , for special effects was Kit West responsible and Syd Cain designed the decorations.

Reviews

"Agent film from the Harry Palmer series, vacillating a little undecided between seriousness and parody."

- Lexicon of international film

The Evangelische Film-Beobachter comes to a similar assessment : "Politically utopian ripper [...], who does not do justice to either side by indecisive vacillation between seriousness and parody, neither in his characters nor in the audience."

“Ken Russell filmed the last part of the fun and exciting series, another effective agent thriller between fantasy and irony with the brilliant Caine. This film - Russell's debut feature film - is less eccentric than his later works, because here the parodic elements predominate. "

- prisma.de

Web links

• The billion dollar brain in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The billion dollar brain at cinema.de (with pictures of the film)
• The billion dollar brain in the German dubbing file
• Billion Dollar Brain in the All Movie Guide (English)
• Harry Palmer fansite (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 503/1968, p. 519
2. ↑ The Billion Dollar Brain. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 11, 2016 .  
3. ↑ The billion dollar brain at prisma.de