The Boys from Brazil
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.
Details
Release details
Duration:
125 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Franklin J Schaffner
Screenwriter:
Heywood Gould
Cast:
Gregory Peck
Laurence Olivier
James Mason
Lilli Palmer
Uta Hagen
Steven Guttenberg
Denholm Elliot
Rosemary Harris
John Dehner
Laurence Olivier
James Mason
Lilli Palmer
Uta Hagen
Steven Guttenberg
Denholm Elliot
Rosemary Harris
John Dehner