The Boys From Brazil
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Year Released: 1978
Rating: 2.0
Ludicrous historical rethink by Ira Levin has 'Angel of Death' Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) - in exile in Paraguay - continuing on his 'serious research' of trying to clone Herr Hitler by spreading genetically-engineered mini Adolfs around the world ... and then arranging for those boys' adoptive fathers to be killed off to replicate A.H.'s own childhood (nature, nurture - you get it). As if the core plot wasn't hard enough to contend with, so you have Peck and Simon Wiesenthal stand-in Laurence Olivier taking turns hamming it up: the movie culminates in Old Man Wrasslin' and Peck being chewed apart by Dobermans. At least the script has the decency to stab an overly enthusiastic Steve Guttenberg early.
