The Brain (1969 film)
| The Brain | |
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| Directed by | Gérard Oury |
| Written by | Gérard Oury Marcel Jullian Danièle Thompson |
| Produced by | Alain Poiré |
| Starring | Jean-Paul Belmondo Bourvil David Niven Eli Wallach Silvia Monti |
| Cinematography | Wladimir Ivanov |
| Edited by | Albert Jurgenson |
| Music by | Georges Delerue |
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| Distributed by | Gaumont Distribution |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Countries | France Italy |
| Languages | French English |
| Budget | $3.6 million |
| Box office | $41.6 million |
The Brain (French: Le Cerveau) 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.