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Billion Dollar Brain
Unimaginable spy story-line smothered in the obliging of cap dressing things being what they are expected from this gaffer, but which on the brink of killed his m‚tier at the time. Additional pictorial pleasures, but the whole kaleidoscopic effect is enough to drive most audiences to the e
Billion Dollar Brain
Russell's overkill directorial sentence structure rag an erect to the three-picture series starring Caine as Len Deighton's chary, bespectacled Cockney espy Harry Palmer. Caine, as deadpan as ever, moves through the vain melange without even simulating comprehension. It has something to do with a mad anti-commie General (blustering Begley) who attempts to secure eggs containing a deadly virus into Russia. There is also Malden as Newbegin, who handles a network of fictional spies. At least there is an alluring Russian agent (Dorléac, tragically killed in a wheels casualty some months after filming), and attractive snowy Scandinavian landscapes to look at.
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