Billion Dollar Brain

Billion Dollar Brain (1967) is a Cold War spy thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Ex-agent Harry Palmer has traded espionage for a shabby private-detective office, until his old boss drags him back for one more job.

A simple courier run sends Palmer from grubby divorce cases to frozen Latvia and a reunion with KGB colonel Stok, then on to Texas and General Midwinter — a fanatical oil billionaire who has built a vast computer and a private army to wipe out Communism single-handed. Michael Caine returns a third time as Palmer, the bespectacled, weary anti-Bond who never once enjoys the work. Ken Russell directs from Len Deighton's novel and pushes the spy picture into something cold, baroque and almost operatic. Stream Billion Dollar Brain (1967) online on iFILM.