Billion Dollar Brain

This film is the last of the three original spy thrillers from the 1960s starring Michael Caine as Len Deighton’s reluctant British secret agent Harry Palmer (the others in the series were The Iprcress File and Funeral in Berlin; he also reprised the role in the 1990s with Midnight in St. Petersburg and Bullet to Beijing). In Billion Dollar Brain, Palmer has left the spy business and become a private eye, but is blackmailed back into government service. His assignment is to find out the man behind a subversive computer network. The culprit is a fanatical right-wing American general (Ed Begley), who wants to use his computer to launch a war on Latvia, thereby setting the stage for an all-out extermination of the “Communist menace.” Palmer must join forces with his old Russian nemesis (Oscar Homolka) to scuttle the general’s plans., Espionage thriller, the third in a series based on Len Deighton’s popular spy novels. Former intelligence agent Harry Palmer is persuaded to return to work, accepting an assignment to deliver a mysterious package to Helsinki. When he arrives in Finland, he meets an old acquaintance, an ex-CIA man now involved with a billionaire who plans to destroy communism in Eastern Europe with his own private army., A former intelligence agent is persuaded to return to work, accepting an assignment to deliver a mysterious package to Helsinki. But when he arrives in Finland, he meets an old acquaintance, an ex-CIA man now involved with a billionaire who plans to destroy Communism in Eastern Europe with his own private army., Michael Caine returns as rebellious spy Harry Palmer in the third in the series of popular thrillers. Palmer unwittingly uncovers a Cold War plot to invade Russia., Finland’s scenery highlights this complex yarn featuring reluctant spy Harry Palmer., A secret agent ventures to Helsinki to destroy a intelligent supercomputer., Ex-spy Harry Palmer is now a private detective. His first assignment is the delivery of a package to Helsinki, but Palmer begins to suspect the sinister motives of his Texan millionaire employer., Espionage thriller, the third in a series based on Len Deighton’s popular spy novels. Former intelligence agent Harry Palmer is persuaded to return to work, accepting an assignment to deliver a mysterious package to Helsinki. When he arrives in Finland, he meets an old acquaintance, an ex-CIA man now involved with a billionaire who plans to destroy communism in Eastern Europe with his own private army, Director Ken Russell sends Lee Deighton’s Harry Palmer through his paces as the secret agent takes on a power-mad fanatic whose private army plans to attack.