BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN (1967)
BBC Two, 1.30pm
The maverick British director Ken Russell brought his distinctive visual flair to the third in this classic trilogy of Michael Caine espionage yarns. Although less fondly regarded than its two predecessors, Billion Dollar Brain has improved with age, adding a psychedelic late 1960s sheen to Len Deighton’s chilly Cold War thriller about a planned liberation of the Soviet-occupied Baltic states by a crazed Texan billionaire and his private army. Already tired of playing the scruffy spy Harry Palmer, Caine ducked out of his five-film contract after this memorably bizarre third instalment, but finally reprised the role in two feeble sequels almost 30 years later. (111 min)
WYATT EARP (1994)
Five, 9pm
Revisiting a much-filmed slice of Old West