The Boys from Brazil
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Time Out says
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
Release details
UK release:
1978
Duration:
125 mins
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Cast:
Rosemary Harris, Denholm Elliot, Steven Guttenberg, Uta Hagen, Lilli Palmer, James Mason, Laurence Olivier, Gregory Peck, John Dehner
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