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Billion Dollar Brain

1967

Ken Russell

Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Oskar Homolka ...

5.4

701

Thriller Harry Palmer has left the British Secret Service and become a private detective. 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.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It is a spy movie that commits the unforgivable sin of losing track of its plot (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"The only things engaging about the picture are the scenery (...) and the cool, serene beauty of Miss Dorleac."
		Budd Wilkins Slant	"Harry Palmer makes the ideal anti-Bond, and 'Billion Dollar Brain' provides him with his most visually and thematically compelling platform (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		TV Guide	"Overly plotted and almost without humor (...) [it] is not nearly as entertaining as its predecessors in the Harry Palmer trilogy"
		David Pirie Time Out	"One of Russell's most enjoyable movies, completely free of the pretentious bombast that has become his trademark"
		Variety	"Plot takes too long to get moving, and when it does it is quite incredible and hard to follow."

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