The Boys from Brazil (film)

The Boys from Brazil
Theatrical release poster
Directed byFranklin J. Schaffner
Screenplay byHeywood Gould
Based onThe Boys from Brazil
by Ira Levin
Produced byMartin Richards
Stanley O'Toole
StarringGregory Peck
Laurence Olivier
James Mason
CinematographyHenri Decaë
Edited byRobert Swink
Music byJerry Goldsmith
Production
companies
ITC Films
Producer Circle
Distributed by
Release dates
  • October 6, 1978 (1978-10-06) (United States)
  • March 15, 1979 (1979-03-15) (United Kingdom)
[1]
Running time
125 minutes[2]
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$12 million[3][4]
Box office$19,000,000[5]
$7,600,000 (rentals)

The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. It stars Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier, and features James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Anne Meara, Denholm Elliott, and Steve Guttenberg in supporting roles. The film is a British-American co-production, based on the 1976 novel of the same title by Ira Levin. It was nominated for three Academy Awards.

  1. ^ The Boys from Brazil at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. ^ "THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (X)". British Board of Film Classification. 1978-12-10. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
  3. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, Scarecrow Press, 1989 p258
  4. ^ Portugal --the new locale for moviemaking: Cooperation praised Peck as a villain By Helen Gibson. The Christian Science Monitor 16 Dec 1977: 22.
  5. ^ "The Boys from Brazil, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on September 17, 2011. Retrieved January 27, 2012.

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