Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

Jun 10th, 2009 by cm2

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The film starts off in a manner which would fit any of the Palmer films, Ross and Palmer antagonizing each other, Caine coming up with a great line “If you want me back in that office, you’re going to have to send around two very big men with a blackjack”. The Maurice Binder titles seem to say this film is going to be very different, however, and they are quite breathtaking, miles away from the other two movies, and very reminiscent of his work on the Bond series, or The Sea Wolves. The film itself is packed with Ken Russell’s usual visual flair, setting this movie apart from Sidney Furie’s or Guy Hamilton’s rather drab and realistic settings. 67 saw the Bond franchise up the ante with You Only Live Twice, which saw SPECTRE going into space and Bond in a tiny gyro-copter, so perhaps a giant supercomputer and disguised oil tankers aren’t so far fetched in comparison (this series is meant to be the backlash against the fanciful James Bond escapades after all). However, the further you go into the film, it becomes more apparent that it’s taken a wrong turn and Michael Caine is in Goldfinger territory, the room in which Midwinter keeps the Brain seems to be very Ken Adam in design. It’s not bad, it just doesn’t fit the franchise for which it was made (and this proved to be the final theatrical Palmer outing, which really is a shame). And sure, Midwinter’s war on Communism plot seems crazy, but here’s a Texas oil man willing to go to war based on bad intelligence. Sounds familiar?…