Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 111m
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Michael Caine, Oscar Homolka, Françoise Dorléac, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Guy Doleman, Vladek Sheybal
Synopsis:
Harry Palmer has to frustrate the plans of a megalomaniac US general to invade the USSR.
Review:
Both the derivative title sequence and the presence of Ed Begley playing a character straight out of Dr Strangelove sets the seal on this last Palmer outing as a surrender to the very excesses of Bond to which the series was supposed to be the antidote. Very occasionally the jokeyness is amusing, as in the climactic Eisenstein parody, something Russell surely relished, but this disappointing film is probably best known, and most poignantly, as Dorléac's last work before her untimely death.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 111m
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Michael Caine, Oscar Homolka, Françoise Dorléac, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Guy Doleman, Vladek Sheybal
Synopsis:
Harry Palmer has to frustrate the plans of a megalomaniac US general to invade the USSR.
Review:
Both the derivative title sequence and the presence of Ed Begley playing a character straight out of Dr Strangelove sets the seal on this last Palmer outing as a surrender to the very excesses of Bond to which the series was supposed to be the antidote. Very occasionally the jokeyness is amusing, as in the climactic Eisenstein parody, something Russell surely relished, but this disappointing film is probably best known, and most poignantly, as Dorléac's last work before her untimely death.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 111m
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Michael Caine, Oscar Homolka, Françoise Dorléac, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Guy Doleman, Vladek Sheybal
Synopsis:
Harry Palmer has to frustrate the plans of a megalomaniac US general to invade the USSR.
Review:
Both the derivative title sequence and the presence of Ed Begley playing a character straight out of Dr Strangelove sets the seal on this last Palmer outing as a surrender to the very excesses of Bond to which the series was supposed to be the antidote. Very occasionally the jokeyness is amusing, as in the climactic Eisenstein parody, something Russell surely relished, but this disappointing film is probably best known, and most poignantly, as Dorléac's last work before her untimely death.