Dr. Josef Mengele, one of the most wanted of Nazi war criminals has been a very busy man. What started as an experiment back in 1943 when Adolph Hitler let Mengele take some blood and skin samples is about to come to fruition.
Gregory Peck whose screen image runs more along the line of Atticus Finch is a truly frightening and malevolent Mengele. Hidden away in his Brazilian jungle hideout, Peck has made remarkable progress in cloning, something we are only grappling with now.
Without the serious moral questions that would trouble most people, Peck successfully cloned 94 bouncing baby Hitlers and has deposited them among selected families of proper Aryan background. Of course part of the experiment is that the fathers have to die when the children are 14 as Hitler's father did.
Steven Guttenberg who gets himself killed doing a little amateur Nazi hunting, before he dies manages to tell what he knows to a man who makes it his life vocation bringing Third Reich criminals to justice. That would be Laurence Olivier as Ezra Lieberman(Simon Wiesenthal). It's a race against time before the evil scheme is either carried out or thwarted.
The Boys from Brazil is a great suspense thriller which asks some very sticky moral questions. Laurence Olivier got his last Academy Award nomination for his role, yet another dusting off of his patented mittel Europa accent. Yet I really do believe it is Peck's film. He shows what he can do as a villain and successfully breaks all bonds of his stereotyping.
If you could kill a baby or an adolescent Hitler, would you?
Gregory Peck whose screen image runs more along the line of Atticus Finch is a truly frightening and malevolent Mengele. Hidden away in his Brazilian jungle hideout, Peck has made remarkable progress in cloning, something we are only grappling with now.
Without the serious moral questions that would trouble most people, Peck successfully cloned 94 bouncing baby Hitlers and has deposited them among selected families of proper Aryan background. Of course part of the experiment is that the fathers have to die when the children are 14 as Hitler's father did.
Steven Guttenberg who gets himself killed doing a little amateur Nazi hunting, before he dies manages to tell what he knows to a man who makes it his life vocation bringing Third Reich criminals to justice. That would be Laurence Olivier as Ezra Lieberman(Simon Wiesenthal). It's a race against time before the evil scheme is either carried out or thwarted.
The Boys from Brazil is a great suspense thriller which asks some very sticky moral questions. Laurence Olivier got his last Academy Award nomination for his role, yet another dusting off of his patented mittel Europa accent. Yet I really do believe it is Peck's film. He shows what he can do as a villain and successfully breaks all bonds of his stereotyping.
If you could kill a baby or an adolescent Hitler, would you?