The Boys From Brazil (1978)
78 %
Reviews Counted: 23 Fresh: 18 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 6.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Synopsis:
Ira Levin's best-selling novel is the basis for this incredible film about the perpetuation of a new race of Hitlers. When one of his proteges locates the elusive Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele (Peck), famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (a wonderful Olivier) stumbles on Mengele's grand... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Gregory Peck, James Mason, Laurence Olivier, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Screenwriter: Heywood Gould
Producer: Martin Richards, Stanley O'Toole
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Screenwriter: Heywood Gould
Producer: Martin Richards, Stanley O'Toole
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
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Reviews
It's more a silly and unbelievable pic than a bad one, but very watchable.
03/03/08 04:01 PM
In the transfer to screen, the film loses the little credibility that Ira Levin's best-seller had, but helmer Schaffner was smart to cast Olivier as Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and to surround him with superb actors like James Mason and Rosemary Harris
04/11/07 05:25 PM
Schaffner conduz a trama com segurança absoluta, permitindo que o espectador junte as peças do quebra-cabeças ao mesmo tempo em que seu diligente e improvável herói, vivido de forma espetacular por Olivier (mas Peck também merece aplausos).
11/16/06 06:40 PM
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06/24/06 03:22 AM
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.
11/05/02 08:10 AM
...given the caliber of the cast and crew, it should have been a whole lot better.
09/26/02 03:49 PM
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