THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL
Rather to my surprise it turns out I hadn't seen this film before. At least I'm pretty sure if I had I would have remembered, seeing how bonkers it is. Or to be more precise the film itself isn't bonkers (in fact it treats the material quite seriously on the whole) - what is crazy is the central plot idea, combining the infamous Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele with cloning. The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ira Levin, and no doubt he would say that the idea of cloning human beings is not too far out. But I would maintain that (spoiler alert) creating 94 clones of Adolf Hitler in the hope (if that is the right word) that one of them might grow up to create the Fourth Reich is loony tunes material, especially since Mengele wants the 94 adoptive fathers around the globe each to be assassinated at the same age as the real Hitler's father died (!). The director is Franklin J. Schaffner who is most famous for directing 'Planet of the Apes' and...