Billy williams shooting billion dollar brain at pinewood with ken russell 32172 duration. It was the fourth to feature an unnamed secret agent working for the british woocp intelligence agency. Harry palmer has left the british secret service and become a private detective. A former british spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow communism with the help of a supercomputer. Billion dollar brain is the third harry palmer spy thriller starring michael caine after the ipcress file and funeral in berlin, and theyve changed the director again. 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.
Making the film was such a struggle and its reception so dispiriting that for years after i automatically ran it down to everyone. The swift destruction of midwinters army can be seen as a grim forewarning. Siskoid billion dollar brain is the third harry palmer spy thriller starring michael caine after the ipcress file and funeral in berlin, and theyve changed the director again. Find highquality billion dollar brain stock photos and editorial news pictures from getty images. The rich mono track gains a bit from the wider range of audio. The two previous movies, the ipcress file 1965 and funeral in berlin 1966, were fairly straightforward spy yarns that, for all of their inventiveness, followed. England stays on the sidelines, with harry representing the only sane voice in a world gone mad. British spy michael caine uncovers texas generals ed begley computer plot. Gallery of 25 movie poster and cover images for billion dollar brain 1967.
Released by kritzerland in 2009 kr 2008 containing music from the final option 1982, billion dollar brain 1967. Catala deutsch euskara francais italiano bahasa melayu nederlands. As a mainstream movie ken russell did for the general public, this spy movie is quite a pleasant treat. Billion dollar brain internet movie firearms database. Ken russells film of billion dollar brain, deliriously wacky though it is, is actually closer to len deightons source novel than the previous movies in the harry palmer series, apart from the ending. By the time he began work on his third palmer adventure, billion dollar brain 1967, caine was clearly unhappy with this binding arrangement due to more lucrative offers now that he was a box office draw. Italia latinoamerica magyarorszag nederland new zealand norge. Billion dollar brain is a 1966 cold war spy novel by len deighton. As funeral in berlin is from paramount, a bluray of it isnt exactly. The brain of the title is a sophisticated computer with which an anticommunist organisation controls its worldwide antisoviet spy network. Staring michael caine, karl malden, francoise dorleac and oscar homolka. This account has reached the download cap, additional downloads subject to agreement.
Apr 07, 2016 honey, i shrunk the kids the tv show s03 ep02 honey, its a billion dollar brain hd watch. Vinyl see all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. This time, madman ken russell is at the wheel, but at least initially, the film feels less experimental the first two directed by furie and hamilton respectively although i. The fat and the angry ettor och nollor by now we are all aware that if a series is described as scandinavian crime, it will inevitably be accompanied by the word gritty. 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 mastered in hd its harry palmers wits against the worlds deadliest mind.
This novel entangles england, finland and latvia and, the brain, a supercomputer owned by a texan billionaire. Saltzman, however, agreed to release caine from his commitment after billion dollar brain although the actor would return to the role two more times after saltzmans death in 1994 bullet to beijing 1995 and midnight in saint petersburg 1996 were the final entries in the harry palmer series. How can you take it seriously when the spys mission is never made clear. Having left britains espionage service, palmer is scraping out a living as a private investigator, but hes still willing to give his old boss colonel. 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. Harry palmer michael caine, who has left mi5 to work as a private investigator, is told by a mechanical voice on the phone to take a package to helsinki. Billion dollar brain enjoys a much better reputation today and is often considered the liveliest and most stylish entry in the harry palmer series. 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.
Billiondollar brain is a 1966 cold war spy novel by len deighton. There is a panscan alternate encoding on the flip side. Billion dollar brain 1967 harry palmer michael caine is a former british secret agent who has taken up work as a private detective. Not rated 1h 51min crime, thriller 14 january 1968 uk. Billion dollar brain on dvd 738329141127 from kino video. Movie season one 111773 when a billion dollar ransom was hijacked steve. 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. Billion dollar brain is the third installment in the original trilogy of harry palmer films that began with 1965s the ipcress file. The third of the 1960s film adaptations of len deightons espionage novels to star michael caine, billion dollar brain was also the most problematic of the three, mostly owing to john mcgraths script and ken russells direction.
Download premium images you cant get anywhere else. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Jan 21, 2017 billy williams shooting billion dollar brain at pinewood with ken russell 32172 duration. When, through faulty scripting or editing, the characters greet people they arent supposed to know. Billion dollar brain the final option soundtrack from 1967, 1982, composed by richard rodney bennett, roy budd. Billion dollar brain is now mostly remembered as ken russells second feature, although the late directors fans are more likely to worship his later less conventional and more kaleidoscopic films. This seems more lighthearted than the other films and is easily the most bondlike comparisons are inevitable. One of russells most enjoyable movies, completely free of the pretentious bombast that has become his trademark, so that its meaning is embodied in the. Even ken russell has changed his original negative assessment of it. An anonymous party hires him to deliver a seemingly normal. 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 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. Thriller 1967 111 minutes color harry palmer has left the british secret service and become a private detective. It follows the ipcress file 1962, horse under water 1963, and funeral in berlin 1964. As james bond mania peaked globally in the 1960s, several alternative spy films challenged the. Billion dollar brain plot takes too long to get moving, and when it does it is quite incredible and hard to follow. A former british spy stumbles onto a plot to overthrow communism with the help of a supercomputer. Michael caine as spy harry palmer in the film billion dollar brain. Billion dollar brain by len deighton, first edition abebooks. 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.
The main buzz about billion dollar brain is a deleted scene, or part of a scene that until now has kept the film off home video. An insane oil billionaire, intent on destroying communism by starting a new world war, is close to achieving his goal with the help of the worlds. With michael caine, karl malden, ed begley, oskar homolka. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing billion dollar brain near you. Apart from two lackluster cable tv movies in the 1990s, billion dollar brain was the last harry palmer. Michael caine returned as palmer and the film was adapted from another one of the len deighton novels and was directed by ken russell lisztomania. 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. Oskar homolka owns this movie, upstaging malden and caine routinely. Belgium 24 january 1969 antwerp spain 26 may 1969 madrid uruguay 30 october 1969. The surprise with billion dollar brain is that it goes 180 degrees counter to the politics in the james bond series, of which harry saltzman was once a partner. Web of stories life stories of remarkable people 287 views 5.
Nov 10, 2014 thriller 1967 111 minutes color harry palmer has left the british secret service and become a private detective. Get 50% off hundreds of family movies when you preorder on fandangonow today. We dont go to a western expecting citizen kane, but we do hope for a good western. Billion dollar brain is a 1967 britishamerican technicolor espionage film directed by ken. The kl studio classics bluray of billion dollar brain is a good encoding of this attractive superspy satire. 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. He may also have wanted to avoid the sort of typecasting trap that his friend sean connery had experienced with the overwhelming popularity. The harry saltzman production is the third and last classic harry palmer spy epic made in quick succession starting in 1965, all for different. Michael caine, karl malden, ed begley, oskar homolka, francoise dorleac, guy. Madcap cold war ipcress file harry palmer sequel done for gags, but well done and with some crisp insights. Michael caine returned as palmer and the film was adapted from another one of the len deighton novels and was directed by ken russell lisztomania the following weapons were used in the film billion dollar brain. I have now finished the fourth and last harry palmer novel from len deighton, namely. Harry palmer michael caine is instructed by an electronic voice over the phone.
Billion dollar brain 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. As a sixties spy thriller you expect a good dose of cold war espionage, but billion dollar brain combines that american insularism and naziesque, extreme right wingism to deliver a film which still has social relevance. Billion dollar brain the final option soundtrack 1967. Secret agent harry palmer michael caine, get carter is blackmailed into working for mi5 again on his wildest and most dangerous assignment yet. Billion dollar brain on imdb billion dollar brain at the tcm movie database billion dollar.