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1978
The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 British-American science fiction thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. It stars Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier, and features James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Rosemary Harris, Anne Meara, Denholm Elliott, and Steve Guttenberg in supporting roles. The film is based on the 1976 novel of the same title by Ira Levin. It was nominated for three Academy Awards.
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In 1967 Ira Levin became famous thanks to *Rosemary’s Baby*, his bestselling novel about the biblical Antichrist being born and raised in modern-day New York. A few years later Levin wrote *The Boys from Brazil*, another novel with a similar theme of apocalyptic evil being groomed in the modern world, although more grounded in hard science and real history. Like *Rosemary’s Baby*, it was quickly adapted for the silv…More
