Billion Dollar Brain

Viruses cannot be seen in an optical microscope (except perhaps as tiny dots).

When Harry is held captive with his hands tied behind his back in General Midwinter's firing range, his glasses are on when he is standing up, disappear when he is sitting down but re-appear when he stands up.

Train wagon in Russia was marked VR which is Finnish Railways acronym meaning Valtion Rautatiet.

After being freed from detainment, Harry Palmer attends the end of a symphony concert, which is supposed to feature Dmitri Shostakovich's "Leningrad" Symphony, written in 1941 during the siege of Leningrad by German troops.

What we hear, however, is the end of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony "The Year 1905".

Yet, music from the "Leningrad" symphony is featured later on during Midwinter's speech to his soldiers in Finland and during the final battle on the ice.

At the end soldiers fall in to the sea and quickly sink.

However bodies dead or other wise, even carrying heavy rifles, will float in the especially cold, salty dense sea.

When Palmer first meets Anya beside the lake, there are shadows on the frozen lake in the long shots.

In the close shot, the lake is in full sunshine.

The ice that breaks up under the invading force is not pure white.

The edges appear brown and dirty indicating that the ice is not formed from sea water.

As a plane lands on skids on ice/snow the sound is of tires skidding onto a concrete runway.

When the 'ice floes' tilt out of the water during the battle sequence, the metal frames they are built on becomes visible.

The "viruses" as seen through the microscope are actually bacteria.

The three 'Russian' bombers taking off to bomb the lorries on the ice-flow are Canberra bombers.

It is unlikely that the Russians, even in their Baltic bases, would be using such aircraft Palmer is seen signing the Official Secrets Act in the car as he's just been re-assigned, after retirement.

Civil Servants in fact, sign this just the once on first acceptance and are bound for life.

They do not re-sign for specific tasks or missions.

Michael Caine's Harry Palmer is found as his messy London office is rummaged by a white-gloved POV, a Bogie picture next to a Dolly Read centerfold. Col.

This film was more about 60's trendiness than ever it was about the book. Michael Caine, by then a Harry Palmer veteran, does well, and Oscar Homolka laps up the character of Colonel Stok.

The Ipcress File was a downbeat and gritty antidote to the James Bond films.The Harry Palmer films suddenly enter the psychedelic sixties with Billion Dollar Brain.

A bespectacled Michael Caine reprises his role as dead-pan, sarcastic, blue-collar, Cockney-voiced, British M.I.

Enjoyable if dated, they are still using punch cards to program their computers!, espionage thriller with a solid cast.

Well - I'll tell you 2 things for certain about this 1967, British, "Secret Agent" picture - (1) actor, Michael Caine was definitely no Sean Connery. - And - (2) Caine's character, Harry Palmer, was clearly no James Bond, either.

"Billion Dollar Brain" is the third installment of the Harry Palmer series and it doesn't work at all. Unlike film directors Stephen Furie and Guy Hamilton, Ken Russell seems to want this movie to be a put-on of the previous Harry Palmer movies.

This film hasn't much to recommend, aside from some nice location photography in Finland (standing in for Russia). It's too boring and low key to appeal to those looking for a James Bond type of film, and too goofy to appeal to those looking for a serious spy film.

I enjoyed both The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin but not Billion Dollar Brain. Whilst the first two films in the trilogy had a feeling of realism about them, Billion Dollar Brain felt like it was just a send-up of the spy world(which maybe is was meant to be).