Welcome back to my blog. Here’s my recommendation of a movie to check out today and hope you punch your “Ticket to the Movies!” OK, today let’s get into a different kind of genre in cinema: World War II sci-fi with “The Boys from Brazil,” which co-stars screen legends Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck.
“The Boys from Brazil” has a creative plot (clone Nazi leader Adolf Hitler) and good work by a wonderful cast, even though critics back in 1978 weren’t so kind. “The Boys from Brazil” has an international flavor as it bounces from Europe to South America and then … Pennsylvania in the good ol’ U S of A!
Peck plays infamous Nazi scientist Josef Mengele, while Olivier plays a Simon Wiesenthal-like character (who was the top non-official hunter of former Nazis in the post-war world). The two are on a course for collision through Peck’s next-to-impossible experiment to clone Hitler.
“The Boys from Brazil” is the story of the genesis of the plot; how it was created; its initial steps; and then most is about Olivier managing to track down why the former Nazis want to kill dozens of older men across Europe and the U.S.
Why? The baby clones were placed with families that mirrored Hitler’s family of an older father and a younger mother. In order to continue the psychological framing of Hitler’s life, the father must die at a specific age … and so the Nazis must make sure of the deaths. Oh, why the title? Because all the clones were born in Brazil and shipped out to other countries.
They are “The Boys from Brazil.” Whew! What a plot! The story arrives via the novel of the same name by Ira Levin.
Although Peck and Olivier were screen legends, the best single effort in a single scene is by actor Uta Hagen, who plays former concentration camp guard “Frieda Maloney,” and the acting is special when she’s interviewed in a German prison by Olivier.
Well, I’ve exposed more than enough about “The Boys from Brazil” and, so, I say punch your “Ticket to the Movies!” and watch “The Boys from Brazil.” It is available on a variety of streaming services and will be easy to find. Watch it! Don’t worry, you’ll thank me later for “The Boys from Brazil.”
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