The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil Error creating thumbnail: File missing DVD Cover Country Error creating thumbnail: File missing France Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner Release Date 1978 Language English Studio Gaumont Les Films du Dauphin Distributor Columbia Pictures Main Cast Character Actor Dr. Josef Mengele Gregory Peck Ezra Lieberman Laurence Olivier Eduard Seibert James Mason Esther Lieberman Lilli Palmer Bobby Wheelock Jeremy Black Barry Kohler Steve Guttenberg Sidney Beynon Denholm Elliott Henry Wheelock John Dehner Professor Bruckner Bruno Ganz

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

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.

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Classic Commercial Browning Hi-Power (Belgian Mfg) - 9x19mm

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Mengele pulls his Browning Hi-Power.

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Close up of his gun.

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Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier) attacks Mengele in Wheelock's living room.

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.

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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

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

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Hessen's M16 slung over his back.

Unidentified Shotguns

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

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

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Mengele enters Wheelock's living room pretending to be Ezra Lieberman (whom Wheelock had only spoken to over the phone). The shotguns are visible in the background.