Marathon Man
Director: John Schlesinger
Genre: Mystery, Action, Thriller, Psychological thriller, New Hollywood, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller, Film adaptation, Drama
Year: 1976
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Roy Scheider, Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Richard Bright, Fritz Weaver, Lou Gilbert, Tito Goya, Jacques Marin, Allen Joseph
Marathon Man is a 1976 thriller film based on the novel of the same name by William Goldman. The film was directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, and Laurence Olivier. The original music score was composed by Michael Small.
Thomas Babington "Babe" Levy (Dustin Hoffman) is a history Ph.D. candidate and avid runner researching the same field as his father, who committed suicide after being investigated during the Joseph McCarthy era. Babe's brother, Henry (Roy Scheider), better known as "Doc", poses as an oil company executive but, unknown to Babe, is actually a U.S. government agent working for a secret agency headed by Director Peter Janeway (William Devane).
The brother of a Nazi war criminal possesses a safe deposit box key but is killed in a traffic accident. Doc suspects that the criminal, Dr. Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier), will be arriving in New York to retrieve an extremely valuable diamond collection. Doc, who is often supposedly out of the country on business for extended periods of time, comes to New York under the guise of a visit to Babe. Meanwhile, Babe enters into a relationship with a young woman named Elsa Opel (Marthe Keller), who
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