The Brain poster, the poster for the cult film by Gérard Oury with Bourvil, Jean-Paul Belmondo, David Niven and Eli Wallach. Discover this unforgettable comedy!
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Description of this Poster The Mastermind
The Mastermind is a 1969 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, which tells the story of a second train robbery by the mastermind of The Great Heist of 1963. The film stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Bourvil as two small-time French crooks, David Niven as a British army officer who is secretly a criminal mastermind, and Eli Wallach as a Sicilian mafioso.
Arthur, due out of prison in four days, escapes to join his accomplice Anatole and rob a night train carrying millions of euros from Paris to Brussels. The money belongs to NATO, and Colonel Matthews is tasked with transporting it. He is in fact the unknown mastermind of the Great Train Robbery, nicknamed “The Mastermind.”
In his plan to repeat the crime, Matthews recruits a mafioso named Scannapieco to launder the money for a small percentage. While visiting the Sicilian’s villa outside Palermo, he attracts the attention of the mafioso’s sister, Sofia, who decides to give him her virginity. This infuriates her brother, who considers his honor violated and decides that instead of a despicable percentage, he will take all the money himself.
The train departs with the money, with Arthur and Anatole disguised as railway workers. Blowing a hole in the armor of the secure carriage, they place stink bombs inside, prompting the guards to open the door. Suddenly, the guards are incapacitated by gas, and two explosions release the wagon’s couplings—unbeknownst to Anatole and Arthur, the gas and explosives were planted by Colonel Matthews as part of his plan. When the stagecoach comes to a stop, Anatole and Arthur throw the bags of money down the embankment. However, that’s where Colonel Matthews’s team, disguised as firefighters, is waiting. They pick up the bags and drive off, sirens blaring, leaving Arthur and Anatole to walk back to Paris, penniless.
The firefighters don’t get far because they come across a roadblock, where the police recover the money and arrest Matthews. In fact, they aren’t police officers but disguised mafiosi led by Scannapieco, whose plan is to smuggle the money out of France in a replica of the Statue of Liberty. Hijacking a DS19, Arthur and Anatole set off in pursuit. Sofia, who freed Matthews and locked her brother in the trunk of a cabin, also takes part in the chase at the wheel of a BMW 2000 coupe. The three groups of criminals are pursued by the police and end up on the docks of Le Havre.
As the Statue of Liberty is hoisted aboard the SS France, Arthur climbs aboard and finds the money, which falls in a shower of bills onto the crowd on the dock. The film ends with the ship entering New York Harbor, where Matthews confides to Arthur and Anatole the secret of his next operation, which involves hijacking a shipment of bullion bound for Fort Knox.