---
title: 'The Brain (1969)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Gérard Oury'
released: '1969-03-07'
runtime_minutes: 110
certification: 'G'
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'France'
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-brain-1969'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064146/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Brain (1969)

1969 · G · 110 min · Comedy · France, Italy

Original title: Le Cerveau

## Synopsis

The Brain is a 1969 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, about a second train robbery by the brain behind the Great Train Robbery of 1963. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Bourvil as a pair of French petty crooks, David Niven as a British Army officer who is secretly a criminal mastermind and Eli Wallach as a Sicilian mafioso.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Gérard Oury](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerard-oury)
- **Screenplay:** [Gérard Oury](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerard-oury), [Danièle Thompson](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniele-thompson), [Marcel Jullian](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcel-jullian)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Georges Delerue](https://cinepixo.com/people/georges-delerue)
- **Producer:** [Alain Poiré](https://cinepixo.com/people/alain-poire)
- **Director of Photography:** [Wladimir Ivanov](https://cinepixo.com/people/wladimir-ivanov)
- **Editor:** [Albert Jurgenson](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-jurgenson)

## Cast

- [Marcel Charvey](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcel-charvey)
- [Yves Barsacq](https://cinepixo.com/people/yves-barsacq)
- [David Niven](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-niven)
- [Raoul Delfosse](https://cinepixo.com/people/raoul-delfosse)
- [Patrick Préjean](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrick-prejean)
- [César Torrès](https://cinepixo.com/people/cesar-torres)
- [Michel Garland](https://cinepixo.com/people/michel-garland)
- [Bob Ingarao](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-ingarao)
- [Jean Droze](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-droze)
- [Jean-Paul Belmondo](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-paul-belmondo)
- [Robert Dalban](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-dalban)
- [Dominique Zardi](https://cinepixo.com/people/dominique-zardi)
- [Gérard Streiff](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerard-streiff)
- [Rémy Julienne](https://cinepixo.com/people/remy-julienne)
- [Elizabeth II](https://cinepixo.com/people/elizabeth-ii)

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