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| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| USA | USD 19,000,000 |
Shortly before the first assassination you see the victim taking a leak.
Over him are two signs.
On closer look you'll notice that they both list Austrian Addresses.
Like the scene moments earlier this was also shot in Austria and not in Gladbeck/Germany.
The train seen in the film's first shot is suddenly moving about 1/3 faster in the close-up that comes immediately after it.
At the end of the film, Lieberman is in the hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but there is an English-style TV on the wall.
In the first shot on the bridge in Gladbeck, Germany, all the trains in the background have the Austrian logo at the front After the young photographer is stabbed in his room and slides down the wall, he blinks, despite being dead.
At the elaborate Nazi gathering in a ballroom in South America, Dr.
Mengele is wearing the "Knight's Cross of the War Service Cross with Swords" at the neck of his tuxedo.
However, the real Mengele was never awarded that decoration.
When David Bennett shows Lieberman the photographs of three Nazi agents, he mistakenly identifies Schwimmer as Kleist and Kleist as Schwimmer.
Near the end of the movie (approx 1:56:28), as Bobby Wheelock sends the remaining dogs out of the room and says, "Out!", the dead dog (who has been motionless on the floor for most of the scene) picks up his head and twitches his ears then puts his head back down.
When Ezra and Esther Lieberman are riding on the tram, Esther is reading a book, but she is holding the book upside down.
IFMCA Award |
| Best New Release or Re-Release of an Existing Score |
Stinker Award |
| Worst Fake Accent: Male |
| Worst Supporting Actor |
| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| USA | USD 19,000,000 |
Good action-thriller. Very original and innovative script, based on the novel by Ira Levin.
Laurence Olivier stars as Nazi Hunter Ezra Lieberman, who is contacted by a young student(Steve Guttenberg) that he has discovered the whereabouts of infamous Nazi criminal Josef Mengele(Gregory Peck) Ezra dismisses it as a crank call, but when the student turns up murdered, Ezra decides to investigate further, and discovers to his horror that Mengele is alive, and working on a sinister plan to resurrect the Fourth Reich! Olivier is magnificent as the Nazi Hunter, a well-rounded and sympathetic, thoughtful performance sadly it comes in a film that defies logic to such an extent that it feels wasted.
Even 33 years (1978) after your suicide the malignant Adolf Hitler still is a substantial subject that inspires many writers about a raise of the fourth Reich, this turn Iran Levin goes too far, but somehow it is interesting and absorbing, Franklin J. Schaffner whose I will not never forget due his capstone "Planet of the Apes" a genuine masterpiece, a stellar casting spoke for itself, Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason.
********** SPOILER ALERT************ I guess this movie would be heaps better if you don't actually know that it is about a Nazi plot to resurrect Hitler through the use of clones. If this is what you know about this film then you are likely to write it off as just another piece of Hollywood rubbish.
The most hilarious collection of fake accents you're ever likely to come across outside of an episode of 'Allo', 'Allo!' It's impossible to think anything other than Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier were competing to have the most ridiculous accent and the most unbelievable acting styles.
+: effective gradual reveal of major plot point, appropriately sprinkled with black humor, excellent performance by Laurence Olivier, competent direction and cinematography, good discussion of science of cloning for that time -: Gregory Peck miscast as his mannerisms still give him away as an American rather than German, some ethical aspects begging to be raised by this story could have been explored more fully but are only touched on at the end.
The Boys from Brazil is about a group of Nazi's in South America plotting to restore the third Reich.The film grabs the viewers attention quickly with an intriguing plot, believable characters and good performances by Gregory Peck, the great Laurence Oliver and James Mason.
Much like The Omen, Don't Look Now, The Exorcist, Halloween and The Wicker Man, Franklin J. Schaffner's The Boys From Brazil is one of the best thrillers from the 1970s.
Mixing real names and real past with unreal present and unreal future can be intriguing and fresh, but can easily become a "porridge" of this and that with ambivalent elements - if not deliberately mocked or twisted as e.g.
