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8 October 1976 (USA)
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A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 3 wins
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9 nominations
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A prime example of the way highly styled entertainment should be…
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Dustin Hoffman | ... | Babe |
 | Laurence Olivier | ... | Szell |
 | Roy Scheider | ... | Doc |
 | William Devane | ... | Janeway |
 | Marthe Keller | ... | Elsa |
 | Fritz Weaver | ... | Professor Biesenthal |
 | Richard Bright | ... | Karl |
| Marc Lawrence | ... | Erhard |
| Allen Joseph | ... | Babe's Father |
| Tito Goya | ... | Melendez |
| Ben Dova | ... | Szell's Brother |
| Lou Gilbert | ... | Rosenbaum |
| Jacques Marin | ... | LeClerc |
| James Wing Woo | ... | Chen |
| Nicole Deslauriers | ... | Nicole |
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125 min
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Colour (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
Certification:
Iceland:16 |
Singapore:M18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:X (original rating) |
Brazil:14 |
South Korea:18 |
Argentina:18 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-15 (re-rating) (2003) (uncut version) |
Finland:K-16 (1988) (cut version) |
France:-16 |
Ireland:18 |
Italy:VM18 |
Netherlands:16 |
Norway:15 |
Norway:16 (1977) |
Spain:18 |
UK:18 |
USA:R |
West Germany:16
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Continuity: When Babe and Elsa are outside Szell's brother's house, the sky changes back and forth from cloudy/hazy to sunny and blue a number of times.
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Henry David 'Doc' Levy:
[to Babe] Do you ever clean this armpit of a place? How can you live like this?
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny (#9.20)" (1997)
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Dors, o cité oerverse
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Schlesinger made a great action-suspense film and married it to the artistry of unique talents… Hoffman was, by then, a dynamic, young and incredibly versatile film actor with three Academy Award nominations already under his belt for "The Graduate," "Midnight Cowboy," and "Lenny."
But the key to "Marathon Man" was the chemistry between its stars… Perhaps one of the most gut-wrenching and most memorable scenes in the film comes when Hoffman is captured and tortured by Olivier who plays the role of a mean and vicious and sadistic Nazi war criminal, Christian Szell… Olivier's performance resulted in a 1976 Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor…
In 1945, Szell ran the experimental camp at Auschwitz where they called him the White Angel… He was a dentist and could provide escape for any Jew who was willing to pay the price… He started out with gold, naturally, but very quickly worked his way up to diamonds…
As Szell saw the end early, he sneaked his brother into America with the diamonds… And they were right here, in New York, in a safe deposit-box until Szell's brother got killed in a head-on collision with an oil truck…
Uniquely built, and with a marvelous, rugged face, Roy Scheider, well known for his strong performances in "The French Connection," "Klute," and "Jaws," came on board as Hoffman's mysterious businessman brother, getting the rare chance to play a character that's both hero and villain… Doc is a fascinating guy because he chooses to work out his problems in a much different way than Dustin's character does… He was very touched and very moved by his father's death, but he abandoned all his hopes for whatever he intended to do and he became a spy, a killer, a very jaded personality…
In doing something truly suspenseful, Schlesinger accomplished a film that's largely about fear and it's about pain and the infliction of pain because of fear… The thrilling sensation of great expectations came on the 47th Street in the diamond district in New York, where Schlesinger gets the best of it…