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Suave leading man Gregory Peck plays against type as the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele using cutting edge science to engineer a new Nazi regime. In this chilling thriller, the fanatical Mengele has amassed 94 Hitler clones hidden as adopted children throughout Europe and the United States. Famous Nazi hunter Ezra Liebermann (Laurence Olivier) is called in to scupper Mengele’s fiendish plot.
During the 1970s Americans began to realise their government had offered asylum to German scientists in the wake of WWII in exchange for their scientific and technological research. Research which gave the US an edge in the Cold War. The shadow of Nazism became part of the US consciousness again and a wave of novels and movie adaptations were realised throughout the 70s. The Boys from Brazil, based on the novel by Ira Levin (who also wrote The Stepford Wives), is a conspiracy thriller that traverses the jungles of South America to rural Pennsylvania. Alongside Peck and Olivier, the film boasts an intriguing cast including James Mason, Steven Gutenberg and a small but pivotal role played by Bruno Ganz.