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The Boys from Brazil
Directed by
Franklin J. Schaffner
1978
2h 5m
R
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A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Cast of The Boys from Brazil
Gregory Peck
Dr. Josef Mengele
Laurence Olivier
Ezra Lieberman
James Mason
Eduard Seibert
Lilli Palmer
Esther Lieberman
Uta Hagen
Frieda Maloney
Steve Guttenberg
Barry Kohler
Denholm Elliott
Sidney Beynon
Rosemary Harris
Mrs. Doring
John Dehner
Henry Wheelock
John Rubinstein
David Bennett
Anne Meara
Mrs. Curry
Jeremy Black
Jack Curry / Simon Harrington / Erich Doring / Bobby Wheelock
Bruno Ganz
Professor Bruckner
Walter Gotell
Mundt
David Hurst
Strasser
Wolfgang Preiss
Lofquist
Michael Gough
Mr. Harrington
Joachim Hansen
Fassler
Sky du Mont
Hessen
Carl Duering
Trausteiner
Linda Hayden
Nancy
Richard Marner
Doring
Georg Marischka
Gunther
Günter Meisner
Farnbach
Prunella Scales
Mrs. Harrington
Raul Faustino Saldanha
Ismael
Jürgen Andersen
Kleist
Mervyn Nelson
Stroop
David Brandon
Schmidt
Monica Gearson
Gertrud
Wolf Kahler
Schwimmer
Gerti Gordon
Berthe
The Boys from Brazil Reviews
Alternate Ending
Tim Brayton
A film too dopey and campy to be taken seriously, too mordant and sober to be much fun, and too ludicrous and melodramatic to be at all defensible as a social commentary.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It's more a silly and unbelievable pic than a bad one, but very watchable.
TheBluFile.com
Dustin Putman
This is a terrifically chilling entertainment, one that deserves a spot alongside the best paranoid thrillers of the 1970s.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
The film loses the little credibility that Ira Levin's potboiler had, but helmer Schaffner was smart to cast Olivier as Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and to surround him with superb actors
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Now, if only Uta Hagen and Rosemary Harris were rolling on the floor next to them, Boys From Brazil would have been an bigger scream.
Apollo Guide
Ed Gonzalez
South America is turned into a virtual sci-fi lab for the creation of ninety-four versions of the Der Fuhrer in Franklin J. Schaffner's campy The Boys From Brazil.
New Yorker
Pauline Kael
This picture is another of [producer] Lew Grade's international blockbuster packages; the deals are worked out in terms of story elements that will sell and of performers with followings in as many markets as possible.
Washington Post
Gary Arnold
An impressive feat of carefully designed and modulated academic filmmaking, a class job in the tradition of Hitchcock or Wyler at their most polished.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The plot is less suspenseful than the overacting contest between the two leads, Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck, who spend most of their screen time one-upping each other in affectations.
Variety
Variety Staff
With two excellent antagonists in Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier, The Boys from Brazil presents a gripping, suspenseful drama for nearly all of its two hours -- then lets go at the end and falls into a heap.
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Jake Euker
Silly.
Juicy Cerebellum
Alex Sandell
Gregory Peck is miscast, but the film is entertaining enough.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Too funny to dislike.
TV Guide
Fast-paced, gripping and totally ludicrous.
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