The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 British-American thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. It stars Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier and features James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen and Steve Guttenberg in supporting roles. The screenplay by Heywood Gould is based on the novel The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin. The film was produced by Martin Richards and Stanley O'Toole with Robert Fryer as executive producer. The music score was by Jerry Goldsmith and the cinematography by Henri Decaë. It was produced through Sir Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment and distributed by 20th Century... Fox. It was nominated for three Academy Awards. The film was shot on location in Austria, England, Portugal, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Young, well-intentioned Barry Kohler stumbles upon a secret organization of Third Reich war criminals holding clandestine meetings in Paraguay and realises that Dr Josef Mengele, the infamous Auschwitz doctor, is among their number. He phones Ezra Lieberman , an aging Nazi hunter living in Austria, with this information.
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| Release date: | October 5, 1978 |
| Directed by: | Franklin Schaffner |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 123 Minutes |
| Producer: | Martin Richards, Stanley O'Toole |
| Editor: | Robert Swink |
| Music by: | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography: | Henri Decaë |
| Screenplay by: | Heywood Gould |
| Estimated budget: | $12,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | The Boys from Brazil |
| Genre: | Thriller, Science Fiction |