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Boys From Brazil | 
| Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Actors: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen
Studio: Live / Artisan
Category: Video
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 15711
Format: Color, Hifi Sound, Ntsc
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
UPC: 012235111734
EAN: 0012235111734
ASIN: B000003NDB
Release Date: May 25, 1999
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Condition: G4241 prev. viewed, PRVT. COLL. tape excellent, box has some corner wear
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Gregory Peck hams it up big time in this 1978 thriller based on Ira Levin's bestselling novel. Peck plays an old German Nazi behind a mysterious series of murders, the investigation of which leads to an astonishing plot to create the Fourth Reich. Laurence Olivier is equally outrageous as a Nazi hunter who stumbles onto the scheme. Director Franklin Schaffner (Planet of the Apes) doesn't make any bones about the preposterousness of the story or of his legendary stars' performances, and a viewer is advised not to push too deeply into this tall tale for cautionary meaning. The film is a bit bloody--particularly unnerving in a climactic scene involving some attack dogs under the command of a young but familiar-looking monster. --Tom Keogh
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 boys from brazil July 19, 2008
E. Stanley-mallett
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is a good story but it was not the one I was looking for.
 My Review of Ira Levin's Story March 25, 2008
Sue M. Stevens (Phoenix, AZ USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a really neat story and it makes a great movie! It's kind of difficult at times
to see Gregory Peck as the bad guy, but, it just takes some getting used to and he's
a "wonderful" bad guy! Ira Levin's stories always made great pictures-it's just too
sad that he died recently. I loved this movie!
Nature or nurture? November 16, 2007
Paul Dsouza (Seattle, WA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This movie has probably ended up playing the role of a "predictor" of events. When it was made, probably one could not have imagined that cloning or genetic sequencing would advance so rapidly. The evil Dr. Josef Mengele gathers all his Nazi cronies with a view to creating 94 "little Hitlers" and killing their fathers in order to recreate the actual environment surrounding Hitler's boyhood. As they say, the final product is determined both by Nature and Nurture. Mengele's aim is to try and recreate both with a view to eventually ruling the world through this half-crazed plan. One of the best movies of all time.
Chilling prospect October 20, 2007
G. J. Weeks (London)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Watching a film about human cloning now makes it seems not as far fetched as when this film was made nearly 30 years ago. It was a prescient film, the only part of which is beyond credibility now was the number of clones successfully produced. Olivier and Peck give great performances as does the scary clone. I was surprised to find it had an 18 rating. Perhaps it is all that cigarette smoking that the young should not see? It is certainly a film to make one support the banning of human cloning.
EErie-ahead of its time. September 24, 2007
Angela B. White
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie presents a subject matter that was ahead of its time. The subject of cloning when this picture was made was science fiction. It presents with a strange feeling that it might be possible that it can occur. I wanted to see this movie again, since I remembered seeing it way back in the 80's and the strange effect it had on me at the time. The fact that one of of lead characters, Sir Laurence, was quite ill at the time in real life, brings out the truely great performance of this actor. The BOYS and their piercing blue eyes leaves a lasting impression
of the movie.
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