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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Brief Nudity, Not For Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1978 DVD Release: 12/14/1999 Format: DVD - Soft-Matted WSE for 16x9 TV Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 7 mins Studio: Live/Artisan Members Wishing: 11 Genres: Thriller, Political Thriller See Also: The Boys from Brazil

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 who were identical -- the results of a cloning experiment, designed to create a race of incipient Hitlers. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Gregory Peck - Dr. Josef Mengele
Laurence Olivier - Ezra Lieberman
James Mason - Eduard Seibert
Lilli Palmer - Esther Lieber-man
Uta Hagen - Frieda Maloney

Franklin J. Schaffner's adaptation of Ira Levin's thriller -The Boys From Brazil comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. There are no subtitles, but the soundtrack is closed-captioned. Supplemental materials include production notes and trailers. This is a by-the-numbers release from Artisan that will probably be the best version of the film that will ever be made available on home video. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide