Marathon Man

Buy This Item Marathon Man by Paramount  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 11-25-2008     John Schlesinger (<I>Midnight Cowboy</I>) directed this gripping, entertaining 1977 thriller that centers on graduate student Dustin Hoffman (<I>The Graduate</I>, <I>Tootsie</I>). 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 (<I>Jaws</I>, <I>The French Connection</I>), 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 (<I>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</I>, <I>All the President's Men</I>) stands as a great entertainment and as one of the seminal films of the 1970s. <I>--Robert Lane</I> Reader Reviews The professional reviewers never seemed to think too highly of this movie, and this amateur can't see why. Olivier is terrific as a former Nazi, who's forced to come out of hiding when his brother dies, leaving a veritable warchest of diamonds in a New York safe deposit box. That the diamonds were bought by this heinous dentist from tooth extractions of gold and silver from victims of Nazi concentration camps is of no matter whatever.Hoffman's brother is hot on Zell's (Olivier's) trail, when the dentist confronts and stabs him to death; the victim falling at Hoffman's feet. That does it; no more graduate work, no more training for road races until Hoffman's brother's death is avenged.While the path to Zell is fraught with pain, duplicity,and danger, Hoffman..well,see for yourself! You'll be highly entertained, even if the "experts" weren't.

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