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Un ancien espion britannique tombe sur un complot visant à renverser le communisme à l'aide d'un supercalculateur. Mais qui travaille pour qui?Un ancien espion britannique tombe sur un complot visant à renverser le communisme à l'aide d'un supercalculateur. Mais qui travaille pour qui?Un ancien espion britannique tombe sur un complot visant à renverser le communisme à l'aide d'un supercalculateur. Mais qui travaille pour qui?
Françoise Dorléac
- Anya
- (as Francoise Dorleac)
Izabella Telezynska
- Latvian Gangster
- (as Iza Teller)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe voice of the computer is Donald Sutherland's.
- GaffesWhen Harry Palmer is being taken to the concert, he passes a sign in Russian that says "Mopchdt", which is a meaningless, unpronounceable misspelling of "Molchat" meaning "silence".
- Citations
[Harry is shown a terminal of the Brain]
Harry Palmer: What does it do, tell fortunes?
Leo Newbigen: It *makes* fortunes: ours! Just a little toy, but it puts the MI5 and the CIA back into the Stone Age.
- Générique farfeluIn the opening credits, crew names are written in all uppercase letters, with the exception of Production Manager Eva Monley, whose name is written "eva monley".
- Autres versionsThirty-one seconds of the original movie are missing on the MGM DVD release of 2004. The licensing rights of The Beatles song "A Hard Day's Night", which was heard in the scene where Harry meets Basil, were too expensive, so they cut the whole scene.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Caine Below Zero (1967)
- Bandes originalesBillion Dollar Brain (Main Theme)
(uncredited)
Written and Arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett
Orchestra conducted by Marcus Dods
Commentaire en vedette
Not great, but with some points of interest.
When ex-agent Harry Palmer recieves a mysterious request to deliver a flask to Finland in return for a fee, Col. Ross forcibly re-employs him with British Intelligence. Palmer is ordered to proceed to Finland with the flask (which contains deadly nerve gas), in an attempt to infiltrate the organisation of Texan oil billionaire Gen. Midwinter, who is believed to be behind an anti-Soviet plot of some kind.
The third and final of the Harry Palmer films (if you don't count the two woeful straight to cable efforts of the mid-nineties) is generally considered to be the weakest. The strength of both 'The Ipcress File' and 'Funeral In Berlin' was that they were the complete antithesis of the Bond films, portraying the spying game as mundane, shadowy and unglamorous. However, with 'Billion Dollar Brain' maverick director Ken Russell presents the audience with an outlandish plot and large futuristic sets, which seem at odds with the style of its predecessors. The result is that the film appears to be aping Bond, and as such the character of Palmer is less effective.
Despite these shortcomings there are pleasures to be had. Michael Caine once again displays wit and charm as Palmer, Guy Doleman is his usual droll self as Ross and Oskar Homolka makes a very welcome return as Col. Stok. Ed Begley gives his all as the lunatic Midwinter, Karl Malden provides reliable support as an old aquaintence of Palmer, and the tragic Francois Dorleac lends an exotic mystery to her character. The snowbound Finnish locations are beautifully filmed and the production design by Bond man Syd Cain is very stylish.
Ultimately the film is let down by rather wild and undisciplined direction and a cartoonish finale. It's a shame that 'Billion Dollar Brain' strayed so far from the template of the previous films, but its by no means all bad, and can be reasonably entertaining if you're in the right mood.
The third and final of the Harry Palmer films (if you don't count the two woeful straight to cable efforts of the mid-nineties) is generally considered to be the weakest. The strength of both 'The Ipcress File' and 'Funeral In Berlin' was that they were the complete antithesis of the Bond films, portraying the spying game as mundane, shadowy and unglamorous. However, with 'Billion Dollar Brain' maverick director Ken Russell presents the audience with an outlandish plot and large futuristic sets, which seem at odds with the style of its predecessors. The result is that the film appears to be aping Bond, and as such the character of Palmer is less effective.
Despite these shortcomings there are pleasures to be had. Michael Caine once again displays wit and charm as Palmer, Guy Doleman is his usual droll self as Ross and Oskar Homolka makes a very welcome return as Col. Stok. Ed Begley gives his all as the lunatic Midwinter, Karl Malden provides reliable support as an old aquaintence of Palmer, and the tragic Francois Dorleac lends an exotic mystery to her character. The snowbound Finnish locations are beautifully filmed and the production design by Bond man Syd Cain is very stylish.
Ultimately the film is let down by rather wild and undisciplined direction and a cartoonish finale. It's a shame that 'Billion Dollar Brain' strayed so far from the template of the previous films, but its by no means all bad, and can be reasonably entertaining if you're in the right mood.
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- KEVMC
- 2 nov. 2003
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