Billion Dollar Brain Page #4

Synopsis: Harry Palmer has left the British Secret Service and become a private detective. One of his first assignments is to deliver an apparently innocent thermos flask to an old friend in Helsinki, Palmer is suspicious of the flask contents and begins to doubt the motives of his friend and those of his boss a Texan billionaire.
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Director(s): Ken Russell
Production: MGM
 
IMDB:
6.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
NOT RATED
Year:
1967
111 min
204 Views


is gonna knock you right off your pins.

My Brain. Cost me one billion dollars.

Do you like it?

- I'm impressed.

- You know what's in here?

Enough information to programme

Soviet communism right off this earth.

- What about China?

- Red China?

After I take care of Russia,

China will collapse, crumble.

Look s like she's crumbling right now.

This is the centre of the operation.

Nice seeing you, General.

I'm sorry to drag you away from your

good family, but you have to see this.

It's the most stupendous thing

you're ever gonna see.

- Cigarette?

- Half a million thank s, partner.

- Figure that thing out yet?

- We're nearly there.

See these? This is it.

This is the programme for revolution.

When we feed them into this machine,

Latvia is gonna be in turmoil.

We're working out plans for countries

dominated by the Commies.

These send out orders to our agents

to begin the uprisings.

They take over the radio stations,

the police, the post office, everything.

And now... Edgar.

Come here!

This is my master plan to immobilise

the Red Army in Latvia itself.

Take good care of that.

Thank s to you we have quite a supply

of viruses already in Latvia.

But gentlemen, we need more!

Leo, I want Professor Eiwort

working full-time on those viruses.

- Get into uniform and programme it now!

- Whatever you say.

Harry, you're gonna learn

to spread those viruses quick.

My Brain says the hour is at hand

and my Brain is never wrong.

You're really gonna try

to start a revolution?

When the Hungarian people rose up in 1956

and called to the world for help

to our everlasting shame we failed them.

We will not make that mistake again.

When the people of Latvia rise up

and call for help

my organisation with all its

resources will be right there.

Once we have shown the way, all the

governments of the free world will follow.

Know

If you go through with this,

there won't be any free world.

Are the Russians afraid? Tell me that.

- I don't believe they are, General.

- Then why are we?

I'm leading a crusade, son.

A world crusade for freedom.

Why? Because I love.

It's as simple as that.

- I love my country. Do you understand me?

- Yes.

No, you don't understand the kind

of love I have for this great country.

Love's not built that way,

my way, any more.

These days love is marriage

and the compensation is alimony.

Love these days is bravery under fire

and the compensation is medals.

Love's a donation to party funds

and the compensation is a political plum.

It's some lady you left back in St Louis

or a fast haul in the back seat of a car.

My love is nothing like that.

It's this company of brave young men

who are proud

to make their country strong.

I want my country to win. So we

have to strike hard and strike first.

I love my country and my dream is

to make it strong. Do you understand?

- Yes, sir.

- Strong! Strong! Strong! Strong!

Strong! Strong!

- What are you doing?

- I am programming the General's orders.

How are you gonna pass them on to Professor

Eiwort? Through a medium?

What are you doing, Leo?

A little "brain" surgery.

Remember the orders on the assassination?

Yeah.

Well, I'm erasing those orders

and substituting my own.

- Anya must be safe.

- And Leo must be safe.

What exactly have you been saying

we do in Latvia?

- I told The Brain what it wanted to hear.

- Oh, yes?

What was that, Leo?

That we have 300 agents in Latvia

dismantling missile sites.

All professional saboteurs

ready for armed insurrection.

- Or political assassination?

- Mass uprisings.

- Overthrowing governments.

- Overthrowing anything at all.

- 300 agents? And how much a week?

- A 100 dollars a week.

- 30,000 dollars a week?

- Plus expenses. And from now on

you're in on half.

Thank you, but I would

like to stay alive to spend it.

That lunatic is about to invade

Soviet territory.

And we're not gonna be around

when he does.

When he gets

within five miles of the border

every alarm in the world will blow

and nobody is gonna be around.

You want your money, don't you?

- Leo?

- Yeah, Harry.

Why don't we go and see General Midwinter.

Here. Check this through.

And do it immediately.

Security.

- Leo Newbigen.

- Harry Palmer.

It's stuck, Leo.

- Harry Palmer.

- Leo Newbigen.

- My name doesn't carry much weight.

- Maybe you haven't paid your taxes.

These boys will help.

Thank you.

You have disappointed me, Harry.

- General Midwinter. Priority.

- Okay, I'll take it.

No, no. I'll handle it.

- What's going on?

- Checking the actuator.

You have disappointed me.

You let me down. You sold out.

What have I done?

- These photos show what you have done.

- You're making a big mistake.

- You made the mistake, boy.

- What's going on?

I won't rest until every Communist

is six feet under ground.

Go down and join your Communist friend.

You, General Midwinter,

are the biggest idiot I have ever met.

I don't talk to Commies.

You're gonna be shot like a traitor.

Your schemes are a load of old codswallop.

If you think you're gonna start

a revolution, forget it.

Leo's been pocketing the wages

of hundreds of agents who never existed.

Liar! I didn't devote my whole life

to this project to have it destroyed now.

The people of Latvia are waiting for me.

I have the organisation, information

and money to answer that call.

You're not gonna stop me.

Nobody will.

I will succeed,

because I am fighting for freedom.

Right now Leo Newbigen is inside

your Brain trying to cover up for himself.

More lies!

He tried to fix me

and he's fixing your Brain.

- If you don't believe me, check it.

- Lies! Lies!

- You're lying to save your life.

- Check the central computer.

All security guards

move to central computer.

Arrest Leo Newbigen and bring him to me.

Seal off all exits from The Brain.

Attention all security personnel.

Arrest Leo Newbigen.

Arrest Leo Newbigen.

Arrest Leo Newbigen.

Arrest Leo Newbigen.

Restrict use of firearms

in central computer area.

Restrict use of firearms

in central computer area.

There he is!

Leo, this entire area is surrounded.

You cannot get away!

My arm is long

and my vengeance is total.

Anod may Good forg vvoe you,

boecausoe coerta n y wont

All heads of departments report to me.

Attention all guards.

Leo Newbigen has escaped

from central computer area. Red alert.

I want programme 371 expedited. With

that traitor on the loose, I can't wait.

How many tankers have I got

within three days' sail of Helsinki?

Two in Hamburg, one in Rotterdam,

two in Antwerp, one in Hull,

one in Stockholm, one in Copenhagen,

and three in the North Sea.

That makes eleven.

Put 300 trained crusaders

onto those tankers.

All combat vehicles in Finland

must be ready when we arrive.

I want the Latvian uprising

fed in the computer.

I want those viruses released

throughout the Russian Army,

every agent working 24 hours a day

and I want it by Sunday. Four days.

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