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The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Director: Franklin J Schaffner
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Ira Levin's novel was so obviously devised for the cinema that it reads more like a script. Its premise was ingenious: why has a Nazi hit team from South America begun a systematic slaughter of innocuous middle-aged professional men all over Europe? The answer should have made a great thriller, but the film is sunk by a series of preposterous performances. There are more phony German accents than in a prep school version of Colditz, and Levin's expert plotting is buried beneath an avalanche of lines like 'Vat are we goink to do?'. Easy answer.Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: Franklin J Schaffner
Producer: Martin Richards, Stanley O'Toole
Cast: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Steven Guttenberg, Denholm Elliot, Rosemary Harris, John Dehner full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 125 mins
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