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With all sorts of plot twists borrowed from Dr. Strangelove and the Bond movies, Brain is the sort of film that more or less writes itself. By the time that Oscar Homolka, as the genial head of Russia's secret service, stops Midwinter's army cold, viewers may decide that the whole thing is mechanical enough to have been turned out by a computer-and one that is worth a lot less than a billion dollars...
...Oscar Homolka sets the tone as the crusty old Thane of Skandia, a bankrupt shipbuilder with a voice like a rockslide. Searching for the legendary Golden Bell, a thing of booty "as tall as three men, and cast by the monks of Byzantium," Homolka's sons Richard Widmark and Russ Tamblyn steal the Norse King's funeral ship as well as his shapely daughter (Yugoslavia's Beba Loncar), and head south. All that stands in their way is a mutinous crew, a maelstrom and Sidney Pokier, a Moorish prince. He, too, dreams of the golden "Mother...
Joseph Conrad's novel, Victory, makes its TV debut. Assisting Carney: Eric Portman, Lois Smith and Oscar Homolka...
...though most of the big scenes were shot on the cheap in Yugoslavia. More than 3,000 Yugoslav peasants and some 4,500 cavalrymen of the Yugoslav army are employed as camera fodder. To top it off, nine big names (Silvana Mangano, Van Heflin, Viveca Lindfors, Geoffrey Horne, Oscar Homolka, Agnes Moorehead, Helmut Dantine, Finlay Currie, Vittorio Gassman) have been stacked on the billboards like a packet of insurance policies...
...time is 1,000 years ago. Rain drums like a dirge on the crumbling ruins of the great temple gate called Rashomon in Kyoto. Huddling in its shadows are three birds of strange omen-a Buddhist priest, a simple woodcutter (Akim Tamiroff) and a cynical wigmaker (Oscar Homolka)-who croak and cluck chorus-fashion about a hideous crime and the baffling trial testimony that followed...