Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer: Heywood Gould

From novel: The Boys From Brazil by Ira Levin

Keywords: Thriller, Nazis, Clones

An American college student discovers Dr. Josef Mengele hiding in South America; he informs skeptical Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman but is murdered before he can give full details. Later, Lieberman is able to learn that Mengele has authorized the killings of civil servants around the world, all aged 65, all of whom are fathers who have adopted a child. Received Oscar nominations for Best Actor, Best Score, and Best Editing.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Dehner	Actor	23-Nov-1915	4-Feb-1992	Carousel
Denholm Elliott	Actor	31-May-1922	6-Oct-1992	A Room with a View
Bruno Ganz	Actor	22-Mar-1941	16-Feb-2019	Downfall
Walter Gotell	Actor	15-Mar-1924	5-May-1997	Gen. Gogol in James Bond films
Michael Gough	Actor	23-Nov-1917	17-Mar-2011	Alfred in Batman films
Steve Guttenberg	Actor	24-Aug-1958		Police Academy
Uta Hagen	Actor	12-Jun-1919	14-Jan-2004	Renowned thespian and acting teacher
Rosemary Harris	Actor	19-Sep-1927		Aunt May in Spider-Man
James Mason	Actor	15-May-1909	27-Jul-1984	North by Northwest
Anne Meara	Comic	20-Sep-1929	23-May-2015	Stiller and Meara
Laurence Olivier	Actor	22-May-1907	11-Jul-1989	Shakespearean actor
Lilli Palmer	Actor	24-May-1914	27-Jan-1986	The Four Poster
Gregory Peck	Actor	5-Apr-1916	12-Jun-2003	To Kill A Mockingbird
Wolfgang Preiss	Actor	27-Feb-1910	27-Nov-2002	A Bridge Too Far
Prunella Scales	Actor	22-Jun-1932		Fawlty Towers

REVIEWS

Review by movievikinglady (posted on 8-Feb-2005)

With human cloning in the news... and becoming more of a medical reality, this 1970's movie still clicks today.

Real life Dr. Mengele (played by Gregory Peck) is inserted into a fictional scenario. This 1970's Mengele has cloned and adopted out some baby Hitlers from Der Fuehrer's tissue taken years earler.

Dr. Mengele's Brazil laboratory, complete with mangled persons he has clearly experimented on, is clearly reminiscent of "Dr. Moreau's Island", the Victorian H. G. Wells sci-fi story about a mad doctor who manipulates human tissue for his own evil schemes...

Yes, fiction and fact meet... I am totally confident the real Mengele would have LOVED to have cloned Hitler, were the technology available to him.

This producer got great actors for this movie... For instance, Sir Laurence Olivier is Lieberman, the fictional Nazi hunter (based on real life Simon Wiesenthal) who tries to stop Mengele's evil plot... and James Mason is the quiet, genteel, cultured man -- who once ran Nazi death camps.

The movie score for this movie sounds like Strauss on Drugs... a kind of Viennese waltz that seems to spin out of control.

Note: The DVD unedited movie means that there is a gratuituous nude murder scene with a young woman (irrelevant to the basic plot -- not missed in the edited TV version) and also some other violence, particularly from one of the young teen Hitlers... but that's what your "skip scene" on your remote is for...

Watch and be chilled by the real life horror possible from human cloning...

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