The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil

Cinema poster

Country	United States UK
Directed by	Franklin J. Schaffner
Release Date	1978
Language	English
Studio	Producers Circle Incorporated Television Company (ITC)
Distributor	Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Main Cast
Character	Actor
Dr. Josef Mengele	Gregory Peck
Ezra Lieberman	Laurence Olivier
Eduard Seibert	James Mason
Esther Lieberman	Lilli Palmer
Frieda Maloney	Uta Hagen
Barry Kohler	Steve Guttenberg
Sidney Beynon	Denholm Elliott
Henry Wheelock	John Dehner
Professor Bruckner	Bruno Ganz
Bobby Wheelock	Jeremy Black

The following weapons were used in the film The Boys from Brazil:

M16

When the Nazis destroy Dr. Josef Mengele's (Gregory Peck) Paraguayan laboratory, Dietrich Hessen (Sky Dumont) and Arnold Schwimmer (Wolf Kahler) carry M16 assault rifles. The guns aren't used onscreen, but are presumably used to kill Mengele's Paraguayan servants and bodyguards offscreen, as we hear gunfire and see the people lying dead on the ground.

The original M16, the first version, firing in a 20-round magazine, adopted in large numbers by the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam. This has the original 3-prong flash hider. It would later be replaced by the upgraded M16A1 - 5.56x45mm

Schwimmer dumps gasoline onto Mengele's porch, his M16 slung over his back.

Hessen's M16 slung over his back.

Single Shot Shotgun

Henry Wheelock (John Dehner) has two Single Shot shotguns displayed above his fireplace mantle when Dr. Mengele comes to kill him.

Wheelock learns too late Mengele isn't Lieberman and his shotguns are of no use to him, now.

The shotguns are visible in the background.

Browning Hi-Power

Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) carries a Browning Hi-Power as his personal weapon. He uses it to kill Henry Wheelock (John Dehner) as part of his scheme to recreate the childhood of Adolf Hitler, as Wheelock's adopted son, Bobby, is (unknown to Wheelock) a clone of Hitler.