Billion Dollar Brain

Billion Dollar Brain1967

Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Oskar Homolka, Françoise Dorléac
Genre: Thriller
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 111 minutes

Billion Dollar Brain is a 1967 British Technicolor espionage film directed by Ken Russell and based on the novel of the same name by Len Deighton. The film features Michael Caine as secret agent Harry Palmer, the anti-hero protagonist. The "brain" o… more »



Col.Stok:
I suppose a young man like you wouldn't know the pleasure of removing a tight collar.

Harry Palmer:
I thought Lenin called such comforts 'momentary interest'.

Col.Stok:
Don't tell me what Lenin said. I touched Lenin. I stood by him in Ruzheinaya Square in July, nineteen hundred and twenty; the second congress. I touched him. Those are the words he used to describe the comforts and pleasures with which the proletariat are diverted from their more important historic mission. But they are not being diverted. Well, are you going to offer me another drink?

Harry Palmer:
In England Colonel, the historic mission of the proletariat consists almost entirely of momentary interest.

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