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The Boys From Brazil

1978, Movie, R, 123 mins

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Fast-paced, gripping and totally ludicrous. Gregory Peck stars as the notorious Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele, who's been busy helping to clone Adolph Hitler. Laurence Olivier recycles his Marathon Man accent as a fictional Nazi hunter who's hell-bent on stopping him. Read the complete review for The Boys From Brazil
Year: 1978
Rated R

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Cast
Gregory Peck: Josef Mengele
Laurence Olivier: Ezra Lieberman
James Mason: Eduard Seibert
Lilli Palmer: Esther Lieberman
Uta Hagen: Frieda Maloney
Rosemary Harris: Mrs. Doring

 

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Question: I am doing some research on films with a cloning theme but have, so far, only managed to come up with two: Four Sided Triangle (1952) a story built around a duplicator; and the very well-known The Fly (1958 and 1986) and its sequel(s). Can you suggest any others?


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Hate to be negative right off the bat, but neither the 1958 version of The Fly nor the 1986 David Cronenberg remake is actually about cloning: They're about transporting physical objects by breaking them down into their cellular particles and then reassembling them in another location — like the transporter in Star Trek. But Four Sided Triangle is a read more

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