Marathon Man
by John Schlesinger, Allan Garden
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Actor: Everett Creach, John Schlesinger, Laurence Olivier, Marthe Keller, Robert EvansDirector: Allan Garden, John Schlesinger
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
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Summary: 5 Stars
Marathon Man is a truly thrilling film - something that most "thrillers" actually fail to achieve. In some ways it seems like a precurosr to the "Bourne" films with its far-flung locations and its one-man-against-the-system premise. If you want to sit back in your seat and be glued to the spot by a film the like of which they just don't seem to make any more then you've come to the right place. For me it's right up there with other classics of its era - Three Days Of The Condor, French Connection and Day Of The Jackal - packed with surprises and twists and turns, action and great perfromances from Hoffman, Olivier et al. And, if you've seen the film before, it wears well and is worth a return visit.
This DVD also has an excellent Making Of with interesting interviews with Bob Evans and Dustin Hoffman and William Goldman's honest take on the 'new' ending drafted on by the film-makers.
Good trivia: The little guy at the start of the film who takes the diamonds out of the bank vault was a survivor of the Hindenberg disaster and his real name, believe it or not, was Ben Dova! The actress who plays the woman who identifies Olivier's character and utters those fateful words, "Der weisse Engel!" over and over was, like her character, a survivoe of the camps.
Summary of Marathon Man
John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) directed this gripping, entertaining 1977 thriller that centers on graduate student Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate, Tootsie). Hoffman plays a sullen and cowardly loner haunted by the suicide of his father, a suspected communist. He is drawn into a murky web of international intrigue when his brother, CIA agent Doc Levy, played by Roy Scheider (Jaws, The French Connection), is murdered by a former Nazi (Laurence Olivier) who has come to the United States to reclaim a valuable stash of diamonds. Babe (Hoffman) must confront his fears of the past as he runs for his life and tries to avenge his brother's death at the same time. Featuring a classic torture sequence and a terrific cast that includes William Devane and Marthe Keller, this film written by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men) stands as a great entertainment and as one of the seminal films of the 1970s. --Robert LaneAction & Adventure DVD Video
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