---
title: 'Billion Dollar Brain (1967)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ken Russell'
released: '1967-11-16'
runtime_minutes: 111
genres:
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/billion-dollar-brain-1967'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061405/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

1967 · 111 min · Thriller · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

Billion Dollar Brain is a 1967 British espionage film directed by Ken Russell and based on the 1966 novel Billion-Dollar Brain by Len Deighton. The film features Michael Caine as secret agent Harry Palmer, the anti-hero protagonist. The "brain" of the title is a sophisticated computer with which an anti-communist organisation controls its worldwide anti-Soviet spy network.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ken Russell](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-russell)
- **Screenplay:** [Len Deighton](https://cinepixo.com/people/len-deighton), [John McGrath](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-mcgrath)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Richard Rodney Bennett](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-rodney-bennett)
- **Producer:** [Harry Saltzman](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-saltzman)
- **Director of Photography:** [Billy Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-williams)
- **Editor:** [Alan Osbiston](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-osbiston)

## Cast

- [Gregg Palmer](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregg-palmer)
- [George Roubicek](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-roubicek)
- [John Brandon](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-brandon)
- [Milo Sperber](https://cinepixo.com/people/milo-sperber)
- [Michael Caine](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-caine) as Harry Palmer
- [Donald Sutherland](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-sutherland)
- [Françoise Dorléac](https://cinepixo.com/people/francoise-dorleac)
- [Paul Tamarin](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-tamarin)
- [Frederick Schrecker](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederick-schrecker)
- [Karl Malden](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-malden)
- [Fred Griffiths](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-griffiths)
- [Susan George](https://cinepixo.com/people/susan-george)
- [Oskar Homolka](https://cinepixo.com/people/oskar-homolka)
- [Guy Doleman](https://cinepixo.com/people/guy-doleman)
- [Ed Begley](https://cinepixo.com/people/ed-begley)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/billion-dollar-brain-1967
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