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    Boys From Brazil, The (1978)

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    The film begins in Paraguay, where a resourceful young American Jew, Barry Kohler (Steve Guttenberg), tracks down several Nazi war criminals living in exile and stumbles across a conference during which infamous Nazi surgeon Dr Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) outlines a plan to murder nearly 100 seemingly innocuous 65-year-old men living throughout the world in order to activate dozens of clones made from Adolf Hitler’s DNA.

    boysfrombrazilBarry transmits his initial findings to ageing Jewish Nazi-hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier) who is initially sceptical.

    Meanwhile, Mengele discovers Barry’s spying and has the young man killed, initiating a cat-and-mouse game – can Mengele execute his evil scheme before Lieberman brings the notorious β€œAngel of Death” to justice?

    theboysfrombrazilThere are moments of suspense here and there, but the shaky story, based on Ira Levin’s best-selling novel, lapses into silliness and the leading performances are so over the top as to border on camp.

    Gregory Peck always portrayed virtue by being stiff and condescending. Here, he portrays evil by being stiffer and even more condescending.

    Dr Josef Mengele
    Gregory Peck
    Ezra Lieberman
    Laurence Olivier
    Eduard Seibert
    James Mason
    Esther Lieberman
    Lilli Palmer
    Frieda Maloney
    Uta Hagen
    Henry Wheelock
    John Dehner
    Herta Doring
    Rosemary Harris
    Mrs Curry
    Anne Meara
    David Bennett
    John Rubinstein
    Sidney Beynon
    Denholm Elliott
    Barry Kohler
    Steve Guttenberg
    Strasser
    David Hurst
    Jack Curry/Simon Harrington/Erich Doring/Bobby Wheelock
    Jeremy Black
    Professor Bruckner
    Bruno Ganz
    Mundt
    Walter Gotell
    Lofquist
    Wolfgang Preiss
    John Harrington
    Michael Gough
    Fassler
    Joachim Hansen
    Hessen
    Guy Dumont
    Trausteiner
    Carl Duering
    Nancy
    Linda Hayden
    Doring
    Richard Marner
    Gunther
    Georg Marischka
    Farnbach
    GΓΌnter Meisner
    Mrs Harrington
    Prunella Scales
    Ismael
    Raul Faustino Saldanha
    Kleist
    Jurgen Anderson
    Stroop
    Mervyn Nelson
    Schmidt
    David Brandon
    Gertrud
    Monica Gearson
    Schwimmer
    Wolf Kahler
    Berthe
    Gerti Gordon

    Director
    Franklin Schaffner

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