The Boys from Brazil (1978) • From the Vault • A Clone Thriller That Still Holds Up

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The Boys from Brazil (1978) • From the Vault • A Clone Thriller That Still Holds Up
Sep 16, 2026 Season 1 Episode 43
Darryl

Join Darryl as he revisits The Boys from Brazil from 1978 in this From the Vault episode, Franklin J. Schaffner's Nazi-hunting thriller starring Gregory Peck as Josef Mengele and Laurence Olivier as the tired, dogged Ezra Lieberman, asking whether this strange, ambitious piece of seventies science fiction still holds up decades later.

This episode contains full spoilers.

In this review, Darryl shares why Gregory Peck's against-type turn as Mengele stands as one of the finest performances of his career, how the moment Peck and Olivier finally share the screen together delivers on decades of anticipation, and why the film's final, unresolved image of Bobby Wheelock has stayed with him ever since he first saw it back in 1978.

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