The Boys from Brazil

Name: The Boys from Brazil
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: October 6, 1978
Duration: 125 min
Rating: 40
Cast: Gregory Peck, James Mason, Laurence Olivier

1978

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: October 6, 1978 | R

Starring: Gregory Peck, James Mason, Laurence Olivier

Summary: A Nazi hunter in Paraguay (Laurence Olivier) discovers a bizarrely sinister plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 125 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff [Not Credited]

The film is compelling, albeit pretty silly in its elaborate "what if?" plot. Read full review

Empire Ian Nathan

For much of its slowburn build there is a classy, intelligent thriller at work, something closer in tone to The Odessa File. Still, you must remain guarded to how over the top and quasi-horror events will finally turn. Read full review

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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. Read full review

Ed Gonzalez

Jerry Goldmsith’s ominous score is reminiscent of his Oscar-winning work for The Omen but The Boys From Brazil is pure pomp and circumstance. Read full review

Richard Schickel

Yet in the end the self-conscious importance of the film produces a rather queasy feeling, for really this story is no more than a crude exploitation — decked out with our latest scientific finery — of what amounts to a penny dreadful fantasy. If you stop and think about it, even if there were a nest of Nazis hiding out in South America, most of them would be pushing 80 by now, and quite incapable of the exertions required by this farflung, not to mention farfetched plot. Read full review

Time Out London Staff [Not Credited]

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?'. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Franklin J. Shaffner's deadpan adaptation of Ira Levin's silly story about Hitler clones. 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. Read full review

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MarcDoyle

Mar 24, 2017

I have to agree with the critics on this one - the self-important tone of the movie really doesn't make up for what it truly a preposterous plot. I'm shocked they were able to cast so well.

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