
directed by
Franklin J. Schaffner
featuring
Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen
This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated men have been mysteriously murdered. Elderly Jewish Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), brought into the case when the clues seem to point to a neo-fascist plot, traces the trail of evidence to Paraguay. Here he finds an unregenerate Auschwitz doctor, patterned on Joseph Mengele and played by -- of all people -- Gregory Peck. Lieberman discovers that the murdered men had all fathered sons ...
GeorgeSgf
May 28, 2009
While this is an older movie it still provides enough suspense to keep you sitting at the edge of your easy chair. Gregory Peck, even in his mautre years is convincing in his roll of Ezra Lieberman. Great movie, it'll leave you satisfied.