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Why just leave him there without his death a certainty? So what you have to do I guess, is overlook those tenuous plot points and go with the flow of the story. When you do, it works as an effective thriller that produces a few nail biting moments. As someone who has his own personal nose mask for my trips to the dentist, nitrous oxide a requirement , the dental scene was particularly cringe worthy. I have to admit however, even though it was probably stated a couple of dozen times, I'm not quite sure what "Is it safe?
It sure sounded like an important question, but I think my own reaction would have been the same as Babe's, I'd cover myself with an answer on both sides of the fence.
You know, I get a kick out of any movie that features a running scene, because unless you're a runner yourself, you probably don't realize that a non-athlete would never be able to keep any kind of pace for more than say, a city block.
Now Hoffman's character was in training for a marathon, so he gets a pass. However someone like Janeway would never have been able to keep up with his quarry. At full tilt, your lungs would burn after only a few minutes; forcing yourself and you'd just collapse. Come to think of it, Hoffman's character didn't look like a convincing runner himself, but since it's called "Marathon Man", we'll have to go with it. I guess it sounds like I'm being harsh on the picture but I actually enjoyed it for it's tension and suspense.
But as I say, some things like Babe's ability to out-gun three professionals at the farm house was stretching things a bit. I liked the ending though. Can you imagine all those diamonds falling away after having made them your life's work?
For me, that hurt more than pulling teeth. The scene that everyone remembers is the dentistry scene, but "Marathon Man"'s plot actually centers on Nazi doctor Christian Szell Laurence Olivier looking for some diamonds, and marathon runner Thomas Babington "Babe" Levy Dustin Hoffman - whose brother Henry Roy Scheider is investigating Szell - accidentally gets drug into the plot.
As it is, you might have a little trouble following the plot. I mainly noticed that in this movie, Laurence Olivier plays a Nazi fugitive living in South America, and in "The Boys from Brazil" he plays a man hunting for a Nazi fugitive who lives in South America.
John Schlesinger, who previously directed Dustin Hoffman in "Midnight Cowboy", casts him as someone with the same kind of gritty look as Ratso Rizzo has. From Golden Globe nominated director John Schlesinger Midnight Cowboy, Pacific Heights , I remember seeing this film once, and of course I remembered the significant and most memorable scenes, but I had to see it again to appreciate it.
Thomas Babington 'Babe' Levy BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated Dustin Hoffman is the graduate medical student who also aspires to run a marathon so runs avidly, and soon after this accident was reported, his brother Henry David 'Doc' Roy Scheider shows up out of nowhere, unknown to his brother he is only posing as an oil tycoon, he is fact a spy.
Working for the secret agency called "The Division", headed by director Peter Janeway William Devane , Doc suspects the dead man's brother will show up in the city in order to get this key and retrieve the valuable contents of the safe deposit box. Babe starts a relationship with Elsa Opel Golden Globe nominated Marthe Keller who claims to be from Switzerland, Doc suspected her of being involved with Szell, but she is not, she just wants to marry and be a U. After being wounded in an encounter with Szell, Doc goes to Babe and dies in his arms, without saying anything, and he gets questioned by the police, and that is when he meets Janeway who reveals his brother was a spy.
Then he is abducted by Szell and his subordinates, believing Doc may have said something to him about, and being a skilled dentist Szell tortures him with the repeating of the words "Is it safe? Babe is let go when they realise he obviously know anything about, and after escaping he invites a neighbour to rob his house in order to get clothes and a gun to end what is going on, and he starts with killing traitor double agent Janeway and Szell's men, who also killed Elsa.
Szell meanwhile has the key to the safe deposit, and he is overjoyed to see it stashed with diamonds, but he cannot value them with most of the diamond shop owners being Jewish, some will recognise him from Auschwitz.
After seemingly getting away with his case of diamonds, Szell is forced at gunpoint into the pump rooms of the reservoir, and rather than kill the sinister doctor he takes the diamonds and individually scatters them in the water below.
In the end, after forced to swallow a diamond or two, Szell ends up killing himself with his own sleeve switch blade while falling down the stairs to retrieve the diamonds, and drowning as well, and Babe walks away, throwing his gun in the ocean.
Also starring Fritz Weaver as Prof. Hoffman is really good as the young man in the middle of a big conspiracy, and Scheider and Keller do well with his time on screen, but of course Olivier steals the show as the demented dentist doctor who's only goal is the find the diamonds, and his most evil moment is of course the dental torture scene, which still manages to disturb.
I agree it takes a little while to really get stuck into what the main plot is, and there are little gaps in amongst, but once you get to grips with it, it is a mostly intense and interesting dark film, a most watchable thriller. Very good! Woodyanders 19 September Graduate student and aspiring marathon runner Thomas "Babe" Levy an excellent and engaging performance by Dustin Hoffman discovers that his wayward brother Henry the always terrific Roy Scheider works as some kind of government agent which in turn causes Thomas to get embroiled in a complex and sinister plot concerning a missing cache of diamonds that vicious Nazi war criminal Christian Szell superbly played with chilling conviction by Laurence Olivier wants to gain possession of.
Director John Schlesinger, working from gripping and intricate script by William Goldman, keeps the riveting story hurtling along at a constant pace, makes nice use of gritty'n'grungy New York City locations, takes time to develop the characters, grounds the arresting premise in a plausibly harsh urban reality, and ably builds plenty of nerve-jangling suspense, with the legendary "Is it safe? The sound acting from the top-drawer cast keeps this film humming: William Devane as the shifty and untrustworthy Janeway, Marthe Keller as foxy foreign exchange student Elsa, Richard Bright and Marc Lawrence as a pair of brutish thugs, Tito Goya as brash street punk Melendez, and Fritz Weaver as exacting history professor Biesenthal.
Conrad L. Hall's glossy cinematography provides a pleasing polished look. Michael Small's shuddery score hits the spine-tingling spot.
An expertly crafted nail-biter. I have always found this to be a very entertaining, involving, taut suspense movie with some very dramatic scenes. I've seen in three times and liked it better each time, particularly since it's been available on DVD which enhanced the sound from mono to stereo, and the 1. I didn't find the infamous this was quite a buzz when the film came out dentist scene to be as terrifying as it was made up to be and the references to the McCarthy hearings are a bit annoying and typical of Hollywood director John Scheslinger.
It's also a typical modern-day film in which the U. S government's police agencies are corrupt oh, puhleeze, filmmakers - think of something new. However, despite those negatives, the film is fascinating with no dry spots despite its two-hour length.
There is a nice variety of action scenes and very interesting characters. Marthe Keller never looked better. Too bad she didn't make more movies in the U. Dustin Hoffman, as he did so well in the '70s, keeps your attention and Laurence Olivier is absolutely riveting. This is a terrific thriller, start to finish.
There's nothing much original in the plot, and there isn't much in the way of character development, but this is a first-rate thriller with some excellent performances and fine direction. Schlesinger has put the film together in such a way that there isn't a dull moment.
Even though some of the moments themselves might not make a heck of a lot of sense. Olivier's Szell has been living off his diamonds for years but has no idea what they are worth in today's market? But so what? The need to find that information takes Olivier to New York's diamond market where the stores and streets are full of Jews and two of them recognize Olivier for the monster he is. The scene involves an old lady being hit by a car, a throat slashing, and a hair-breadth escape by Olivier, not to mention a couple of amusing scenes in the shops themselves.
The script has taken Olivier on an unnecessary and dangerous trip, and Schlesinger has made the absolute most out of the scene.
This happens repeatedly. A bomb is hidden inside a doll. Just before it blows up and kills a number of people, the clock inside the doll stops its loud ticking and the doll slowly opens its eyes. I mean, what has the time bomb got to do with the eyeballs?
Again, no matter. The incident adds to the tension and that's its point. Then there is the famous torture scene, in which Dustin Hoffman is trapped in a chair and his teeth are finagled with by Olivier, who is playing a Nazi dentist. That's quite a cavity you have there. You should take better care of your teeth.
Man, if you dislike visits to the dentist, you'll find this scene excruciating. Schlesinger even has one of the Nazi thugs turn away. The scene didn't bother me that much because I am never afraid of the dentist unless I am in his office but I can still sympathize. The directorial manipulation doesn't always work out the way we expect perhaps.
Dustin Hoffman is shown running multiple times, with occasional quick inserts of Olympic runners like Jesse Owens. And when he takes off down deserted streets pursued on foot by a couple of shoe-clad heavies we half expect him to fly like Mercury, yet he's barely able to outlast William Devane.
Dustin Hoffman's performance is more than just good. When he's experiencing fear or anguish he can really make us feel it. And Olivier is superb, with his shining pate and go-anywhere accent. He even gives the sadistic Nazi some dignity. When Hoffman has him at gunpoint and is forcing him to eat his own diamonds, Olivier balks after managing to swallow one or two and says firmly, "No more. You'll have to shoot me.
We hear more than once that Hoffman is unwilling to face facts. It sounds like a set up for some tragic flaw that will get him in trouble later. But it doesn't. He seems to face all the facts as he becomes aware of them. And there is a good deal of attention paid to the father of Hoffman and Roy Scheider.
Evidently the guy was caught up in the McCarthy witch hunt and killed himself for some reason. Hoffman may be writing his master's thesis on the incident -- it's not entirely clear.
But it doesn't matter anyway because it has nothing to do with the plot. I have to mention the location shooting and the photography because both are so well done. The isolated abandoned farmhouse towards the end, sitting atop a hill that is bare except for a few leafless wintry trees and the sad remnants of last summer's sunflowers, it all evokes Poe's misty mid-region of Weir. I've kind of picked on this movie for its weaknesses but I don't want to give the impression that it's a failure because it is definitely not.
It does precisely the job it sets out to do. Tweekums 4 March As this '70s thriller opens two elderly drivers get into an argument on a New York street; one is Jewish the other is a German who clearly has Nazi views. This leads to what would now be called 'road rage' and a crash that kills both men.
It turns out the German is the brother of a presumed dead war criminal Christian Szell. This event will ultimately have a serious effect on Thomas Babington "Babe" Levy; a PhD student with no obvious connection to either man. Babe is a post graduate student in New York where he meets, and gets involved with, Elsa Opel, who claims to be from Switzerland. One day as they walk through central park they are attacked by two unlikely muggers Meanwhile Babe's brother 'Doc', who Babe thinks is an oil executive, is in Paris working for a shadowy government agency that has been working with Szell.
After his brother's death Szell is worried that his ill-gotten fortune in diamonds might not be safe This is a superior thriller which never treats its audience as idiots. For much of the film connections are far from obvious; things happen and we aren't told why.
Then as the connections are exposed everything starts to make sense. Dustin Hoffman is impressive as Babe, the innocent caught up in events he doesn't understand; Roy Scheider is equally solid as "Doc" and Laurence Olivier is genuinely menacing as Dr Christian Szell While the film isn't excessively violent there are a few shocking moments.
These moments are justified to establish the dangers and nature of certain characters. The action is shot in a fairly matter-of-fact way which makes it feel more real than exciting.
Overall I'd definitely recommend this to fans of gritty '70s thrillers. This pursuit-thriller concerns about previous aging Nazi Dr. Szell Laurence Olivier , a Joseph Mengele-alike, an arch-nasty denominated the 'White Angel of Auschwitz', he has an insidious scheme to get a priceless diamonds and he will not stop at nothing. A graduate history student named Babe a superb Dustin Hoffman and expert runner in N.
He's helped by a secret agent William Devane from an organization called 'the Division' which also belongs his brother and whose members start to be killed one by one. Szell has a diamonds treasure hidden into a safety box and is aware which 'the runner' knows whether or no it is safe to go to pick it up.
This exciting movie packs noisy action, thrills, chills,love story, betrayal and is quite entertaining. This intense thriller that holds your interest throughout, certainly is worth watch seeing for Olivier's brilliant, credible performance as repellent and murderous villain, including one of the creepiest scenes of tortures ever made.
Interesting movie but with some holes and gaps and ridiculous scenes , as the silly chase at the beginning when the brother of the infamous Nazi war criminal undergoes a race cars causing a collision course, as at the ending when the Doctor Szell is unbelievable recognized by people here and there. Suspenseful musical score by Michael Small and adequate cinematography by Conrad L.
The motion picture is well directed by Englishman John Schelesinger. He's a dramas Far from the madding crowd,Day of Locust, Yanks, Midnight cowboy expert and suspense Believers, eye for eye, The innocents, Falcon and snowman movies. The tagline for director John Schlesinger's "Marathon Man" read simply "A Thriller"--and so it is, despite a heavy sag of masochistic weight in its midsection. Dustin Hoffman looks in great shape playing a Columbia grad student, still haunted by his father's suicide and perhaps in training for the New York marathon , who gets mixed up by proxy in his nefarious older brother's activities; seems his sibling has been working secretly as a courier in stolen gems, and has run afoul of Szell, a.
The White Angel, the most notorious Nazi war-criminal still alive. Schlesinger shows off a nasty side of himself, staging some dental torture scenes that are just about impossible to watch; even worse, not all of the pieces in William Goldman's adaptation of his bestseller fit accordingly.
Both men eagerly press ahead so that the story gaps won't be so noticeable, and there's much zig-zagging across the continents leaving red herrings, street bombs, and character intricacies in the picture's wake. We learn so little about Hoffman's brother played by an equally fit Roy Scheider that, by the film's climax, we still don't know whose side he was he on--or why his cohorts lost trust in him.
Marthe Keller's mysterious German beauty is another character muddle, a pretense of writer Goldman who was really out to stack this deck against Hoffman's runner. Please look at the map below if you're having a hard time finding where you need to go.
You shouldn't need to use this map, but I added one anyways just in case. I'm at character level 51 which is max and was getting k each run which is a lot. Leave a comment. Sign in and add a guide. John McLarren , 22 Feb 25 Feb This is more of an alternative to Bonien2's guide. It gives a bit less k level 51 but can often be done in a minute or less if everything spawns perfectly.
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