Marathon Man (1976)
- Directed by
- John Schlesinger
- Genre
- drama film, action film, crime film, thriller film, suspense film, action thriller
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 05m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 1,240 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A graduate student and marathon runner gets pulled into a dangerous conspiracy involving his brother and a Nazi war criminal. The war criminal wants to recover hidden diamonds and will do anything to get them.
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What happens
Marathon Man is a 1976 American suspense thriller film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by William Goldman from his 1974 novel of the same title. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane and Marthe Keller. The film is about "Babe" Levy (Hoffman), a Columbia University graduate student and distance runner who becomes unwittingly embroiled through his brother in a plot by Nazi war criminal Christian Szell (Olivier) to retrieve ill-gotten diamonds from a safe deposit box owned by Szell's dead brother. The film was released by Paramount Pictures on October 8, 1976, and was both a critical and commercial success. For his performance, Olivier won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for the Academy Award in the same category. It was nominated for four other Golden Globes, including Best Director, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (for Hoffman) and Best Actress (for Keller). It also received BAFTA Award nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Hoffman) and Best Editing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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