The Brain (1969 film)

The Brain
Original film poster
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
Production company	Gaumont
Distributed by	Paramount
Release date	7 March 1969 (1969-03-07) (France)
Running time	115 minutes
Countries	France Italy
Languages	French English
Budget	$3.6 million[1]
Box office	$41.6 million[2]

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.