The Brain (1969)

Original title

Le Cerveau

Directed by

Gérard Oury

Genre

comedy film, heist film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 301 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two small-time French crooks get caught up in a train heist planned by a mastermind who was behind a famous real-life robbery. An army officer turns out to be the criminal leader, and a mafia boss gets involved.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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