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The Boys from Brazil
film by Schaffner [1978]
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- discussed in biography
- In Franklin J. Schaffner
Better received was The Boys from Brazil (1978), a thriller based on the Ira Levin best seller. Laurence Olivier gave an Oscar-nominated performance as a Nazi-hunting Jewish survivor of the death camps, and Gregory Peck was cast against type as Josef Mengele, trying to clone Adolf Hitler. Schaffner’s…
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- Mason
- In James Mason
(1962), Georgy Girl (1966), The Boys from Brazil (1978), and The Verdict (1982).
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- Peck
- In Gregory Peck
…Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in The Boys from Brazil (1978). Although Peck continued to work into the early 1990s (at which time he announced that he was largely retired), his final films are mostly forgettable.
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