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- BFI identifier53600
- Date1978 (Copyright)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisDrama involving the real-life Nazi war criminal, Josef Mengele, who 'disappeared' to South America, and the efforts of Ezra Lieberman, an ageing Jewish Nazi-hunter and a younger man to track him down. They believe that Hitler's scientists perfected genetic cloning, and have impregnated a number of women across the world with Hitler's children, in an attempt to recreate the Fuhrer. (Synopsis)
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- CreditsDirected by: Franklin J. Schaffner
©: ITC Entertainment Ltd.
A Producer Circle production: Producer Circle
view all - CastGregory Peck (Dr Josef Mengele)
Laurence Olivier (Ezra Lieberman)
James Mason (Eduard Seibert)
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Title
The Boys from Brazil (Original)
Power (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/EBED-53BF-62AA-877B-7C11-JCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Novel by Ira Levin - SCR-4631
Script - Original story: Novel by Ira Levin - SCR-4632
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-53600
Ephemera: publicity - The large pressbook for the 1978 film, The Boys from Brazil. Content includes reviews, advertisements, promotional ideas and materials, and informational articles and interviews. Additional images from the film spread throughout. 12 pages, colour. - PBL-53600
ROBERT AND BARBARA CLARK - ARE YOU BEING SERVED? (GB,1977) [Wardrobe - Babs Gray] RBC/82/1 Unit List; Shooting schedule, 31 March 1977; Call Sheets, 19 - 22 April, 1977; Movement order, 19 April 1977; Plan of Gatwick airport; RBC/82/2 6 Publicity stills [Including John Inman, Arthur English, Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton, Arthur Brough and other cast members] SPECTRE (US,1977) [Wardrobe mistress - Babs Gray] RBC/83/1 Unit and Cast lists; Call sheet, 4 February 1977; Shooting Schedules, 22 - 31 December 1976; Casting advice for Gordon Jackson and John Hurt, 7 December 1976; Telephone list; List of creatures and make-up/costume requirements; Partial Costume measurements list; Petty cash voucher for hire of ironing equipment; RBC/83/2 3 costume/makeup stills of 'creatures'; Signed publicity stills of Gig Young and Robert Culp. RBC/83/3 Letter from Twentieth Century Fox Productions Ltd to Babs Gray outlining terms of engagement as Wardrobe mistress, 25 November 1976; Pay slips RBC/83/4 Blank notepaper and envelope with 'SPECTRE' production logo. STEVIE (US,GB,1978) [Wardrobe supervisor - Babs Gray] RBC/84/1 Unit & Cast list; Call sheets, 19-31 January 1978; Breakdown of scenes; RBC/84/2 Itemised list of costume items purchased from petty cash; Small bundle of receipts; Note to Babs Gray from 'Patsy' about work on one of Glenda Jackson's costumes; Postcard of John Wood costume sketch for Saturninus in Titus Andronicus, with note about costume purchase from 'Patsy'; RBC/84/3 Publicity still of Trevor Howard and Alec McCowen; Signed publicity still of Mona Washbourne; KILLER FISH (BR,IT,US,1978) RBC/85/1 8 Production stills (including Lee Majors and Margaux Hemingway' Publicity still of Marisa Berenson. The PEREGRINE HUNTERS (GB,1978) [Wardrobe mistress - Babs Gray] RBC/86/1 Unit and cast lists; Call sheet, 1 September 1977. The BIG SLEEP (GB,1978) RBC/87/1 4 Publicity stills [Featuring Robert Mitchum, John Mills, Richard Todd, James Stewart and Joan Collins The BOYS FROM BRAZIL (US,1978) RBC/88/1 25 Production/publicity stills [ featuring Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer and other cast members] Les MISERABLES (US,1978) [Director - Glenn Jordan] RBC/89/1 5 Production stills; HANOVER STREET (GB,1979) RBC/90/1 4 Production stills of London street scene before and after bombing; Newscutting about the construction of Hanover street on the backlot at Elstree and recreation of the blitz, 1978. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (US,1979) RBC/91/1 3 Production stills - ITM-17782
Information folder held. Medium pressbook held.
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- Booksboys from Brazil - 1998view all
- +The Boys from Brazil
Work - 53600 - 1978 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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