Richard rodney bennett billion dollar brain original. The film features michael caine as secret agent harry palmer, the antihero protagonist. As in most of the authors novels, the plot of billion dollar brain 1967 is intricate, with many dead ends. Billion dollar brain book by len deighton thriftbooks. Belgium flemish title een brein van een miljard dollar. View historical and todays current inflation rates, using the cpi provided by the united states government. Billion dollar brain 1967 harry palmer michael caine is a former british secret agent who has taken up work as a private detective. Belgium 24 january 1969 antwerp spain 26 may 1969 madrid uruguay 30 october 1969. Nov 10, 2014 thriller 1967 111 minutes color harry palmer has left the british secret service and become a private detective.
A former british spy stumbles onto a plot to overthrow communism with the help of a supercomputer. Billion dollar brain is a 1967 britishamerican technicolor espionage film directed by ken. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Xpd is a spy novel by len deighton, published in 1981, and set in 1979, roughly contemporaneous with the time it was written. Inflation data is updated regularly, so results may differ from other websites. Greece october 2004 panorama of european cinema also known as aka original title billion dollar brain. The billion dollar brain 1967 opening titles youtube. 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. Thriller 1967 111 minutes color harry palmer has left the british secret service and become a private detective. The classic thriller of a lethal computer age and a maniacs private cold wargeneral midwinter loves his country, and hates communism. Billion dollar brain the final option soundtrack 1967, 1982.
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We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that youve provided to them or that theyve collected from your use of their services. Billion dollar brain bluray kl studio classics 1967 color 2. Billion dollar brain is a 1966 cold war spy novel by len deighton. 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. A fourth film in the series, an adaptation of horse under water, also to be released. This novel entangles england, finland and latvia and, the brain, a supercomputer owned by a texan billionaire. It is the only film in which ken russell worked as a mainstream directorforhire, and the last film of francoise dorleac. It follows the ipcress file 1962, horse under water 1963, and funeral in berlin 1964. 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. 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. An anonymous party hires him to deliver a seemingly normal. Mar 26, 2015 billion dollar brain, i believe was ahead of its time, as the computer to the man on the street was largely unknown and mr. It was the fourth to feature an unnamed secret agent working for the british woocp intelligence agency. 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.
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