- Marathon Man (4/8) Movie CLIP (1976) HD - YouTube The ending does look a bit off; Goldman called it downright stupid. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The set pieces, sharp editing, great cinematography (which includes the first use of the Steadicam by Garrett Brown) and strong direction by Schlesinger along with the themes of Nazism, paranoia, inability to let go of the past and growing up into adulthood make this film very memorable. Marathon Man is the film that made everyone scared of going to the dentist… especially if your dentist is a secret Nazi war criminal. First, Elsa is revealed to be Szell’s spy as Doc suspected. Especially during the scenes when they return to the hideout and Janeway is revealed to be an accomplice to Szell and the escape from Szell’s hideout where he could have been totally naked (as a runner myself, I know the feeling of running for your life). Szell then takes Doc by surprise and stabs him with a blade concealed in his sleeve. We see the diminutive, Jewish Babe being challenged by a tall, blonde ‘Aryan’ looking guy to outrun him. In Laurence Olivier …Oscar nomination for best actor), Marathon Man (1976, Oscar nomination for best supporting actor), the television films Love Among the Ruins (1975) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976), and the British miniseries Brideshead Revisited (1981). I find him a bit overrated, but here he does a good job of elevating hack-level thriller material into a sort of art form. [after Szell tortures Babe by drilling into a healthy tooth, he still gets no information about Babe's brother, frustrating Szell] First is the Nazi holocaust that happened in Europe; second is the McCarthyism that happened in America post WWII. This FAQ is empty. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Believing that Doc has stolen a valuable cache of gems, Szell emerges from his South American hiding place and heads for New York. can reach me at @ManeeshKrishn17 Directed by John Schlesinger and featuring an all-star cast, Marathon Man moves with nail-biting suspense to its thrilling, fever-pitched conclusion. I loved that he died by his own hand instead of Babe shooting him down, unrepentant and consumed by his greed of the diamonds. Usually I like normal-looking, non-glamorous actors, but somehow Hoffman doesn't float my boat.Still, it's hard not to sympathize with the poor guy while he's being pursued, beaten, tortured etc. Cast & Crew. Hoffman would run for a half-mile, so when he came into a scene where he would be shown exhausted from running, he would actually be out of breath. A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment. I don’t condone him for his nasty behavior on sets and his sexual harassment against women; he was wrong for doing it back then and he’s rightfully called out for it now. "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. These portions play more like a horror film; right from the eerie setting of the plaza where Szell kills Doc, and then a totally bloodied Doc barging into Babe’s room like a ghost. Richard Bright. In 1976 it was made into a film of the same name, with screenplay by Goldman, starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, and Roy Scheider and directed by John Schlesinger . A history student becomes caught in the middle of a dangerous international plot involving Nazis, stolen jewels, and government agents. This is almost like a time-travel moment. A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection. Marathon Man is a 1976 American suspense-thriller film directed by John Schlesinger.It was adapted by William Goldman from his 1974 novel of the same title and stars Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane and Marthe Keller.In the film, "Babe" Levy, a graduate student (Hoffman), becomes embroiled in a plot by Nazi war criminal Christian Szell (Olivier) to … A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute. A history student becomes caught in the middle of a dangerous international plot involving Nazis, stolen jewels, and government agents. Then, Babe has a confrontation with Janeway and Szell’s henchman at Szell’s brother’s house, where Janeway offers to let Babe kill Szell in revenge for Doc’s death, if Janeway can have the diamonds; he also gives Babe the location of Szell’s bank. Roy Scheider Actor. Doc reports these incidents to his superior Peter Janeway(William Devane), who’s rather nonchalant in his response. But the moment from Doc’s death till Babe’s escape from Szell’s prison is superbly crafted, and is the best part of the film. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! His deranged … Thanks again Jayram. This last minute move on Doc’s part- to die in the company of his brother, the only one who loves him- proves fatal for Babe. A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich. Do you agree with it? Marathon Man is one of those movies that's considered to be a classic, but is actually rather overrated. Screenplay: William Goldman. His method acting is so effortless that I hardly notice it. In these scenes, both the text and subtext of the film is revealed in a single sweep. Babe threatens to drop the suitcase containing diamonds in the water if Szell wouldn’t swallow the diamonds. Babe is paying homage to his deceased father, H.B. in history from Columbia University is part of that. Sir Laurence Olivier took the role of Dr. Szell in part to leave a great deal of money to his wife and children, as he expected to die from the cancer that afflicted him throughout production. So whether apocryphal or not, you can understand why the the above story is very easy to believe. Szell kidnaps Doc's brother, lone, idealistic Jewish graduate student Babe Levy (38 year old Dustin Hoffman as a mid-20s grad student), who knows nothing about his brother's involvement. Unknowingly, he gets caught up in an international conspiracy involving Olivier’s Dr. Szell, corrupt government agents and stolen diamond. William Devane. What was the movie Marathon Man about? One of the key chapters in his thesis was to be about McCarthyism. then the camera stays with him inside, as we hear and see the doors of his bathroom being broken down by the thugs. While at Columbia, Babe meets and begins to date Elsa Opel, a foreign exchange student also in History. Roy Scheider. You, Madan, Jeeva (though I feel he preaches a bit too much on BR’s blog) and I are probably the only few who write exhaustive and exhausting writeups because we passionately love the topics we write about. Amazon.com: MARATHON MAN: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, John Schlesinger: Movies & TV ... Dustin Hoffman brings star power to this film (and to the book), as does Laurence Olivier, but the actors who run away with the story are B-list actors William Devane and Roy Scheider, who both have made many fine films, but who are also given large parts in this film. Marathon Man (1976) Director: John Schlesinger. Marc Lawrence. Right now, it’s a question playing on the lips of anyone stepping out their front door. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Arriving on the set, Sir Laurence Olivier asked Hoffman (in another version he asked Schlesinger) why he looked the way he did. He plays a PhD. He believes in building up his narrative and characterization linearly, and infuses his novels\screenplays with richly detailed characters and clever wordplay. Truly a worthy comeback. he desperately cries for help, but to no avail, by then the intruders have caught him and they try to drown him in the bathtub as he passes out. With Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane. It's good, of course - very good - but it's not exactly a good time. As a souvenir, Babe had kept the gun with which his father had shot himself, and it’s this gun that he uses against Janeway and Szell at the end of the film. John Schlesinger on Laurence Oliver & Dustin Hoffman Marathon Man story. Babe has been tormented about this all his life, and his running and his obsession with attaining a PhD. There’s no background score to go with this scene, it’s all natural sound effects as in Friedkin’s The Exorcist. So Robert Towne was hired to write the ending set in the water-treatment facility. In 1979 he was also presented with an Honorary Award, at the Academy Awards, to recognise his lifetime of contribution to the art of film. 27 of 43 people found this review helpful. The film was one of the half a dozen films to use the newly invented Steadicam technology, and it gives a fluid feel to the running scenes. He performed the role while undergoing treatment for his cancer, which included heavy doses of painkillers to allow him to work every day. Thomas "Babe" Levy, whose brother Henry James "Doc" Levy is an oil business executive, is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Columbia University. Laurence Olivier, Actor: Sleuth. A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust. At the meeting, Doc violently chastises Szell for involving Babe in these matters, and warns him that he himself is not to be trusted- meaning that Doc may be planning to steal Szell’s diamonds. 2 hr 5 min R HD SD; Oct 6, 1976; Suspense; More Trailers and Videos for Marathon Man. Whenever he’s on screen, he completely captures my attention. "Marathon Man" fits that description. He plays off Olivier with such dexterity that the combination of the two is so powerful and radiant. Believing that Doc has stolen a valuable cache of gems, Szell emerges from his South American hiding place and heads for New York. A couple of attempts are made on Doc’s life by Szell’s henchman, Chen, in Paris, but he manages to escape both. But the film also has my other favorite from that time, Roy Scheider, who’s so effortless, and effortlessly cool and macho, like the Bogart of 70s. You Might Also Like. But then, Janeway does a volte-face and tries to shoot Babe. I recently watched the Insider and I enjoyed it. His over the top ness works perfectly as it matches the extreme paranoia Babe went through. (The city, by the way, looks like a hellish, crime-infested, debris-strewn pit in this movie - like it does in most 1970s productions! i must say that a lot of these themes are not fully developed, and I’m actually making the film more interesting than it actually is. And just as he lost his father to McCarthyism, he would loose his brother to Nazism. So as Babe tries to outrun the tall guy and fails, we have Szell’s brother and the Jewish guy having a race of their own in the street with their cars, which finally culminates in both of them banging their cars into an oil tanker, setting off an explosions that kills both of them. Doc was couriering diamonds for Szell in return for the latter’s assistance in tracking down other Nazi war criminals. They have to work hard to make performances happen, which is true for De Niro as well. So, you could clearly see the links that Goldman makes between these two tyrannical philosophies. The scene where Babe is kidnapped by Szell’s thugs is brilliantly set up by Schlesinger and the great cinematographer, Conrad L. Hall. Marathon Man(1976), Directed by John Schlesinger from a novel by William Goldman, and starring Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider and Laurence Olivier, is a superbly crafted thriller that tackles deeper themes of Nazism, anti-Semitism and the rites of passage to adulthood. Szell complies for a while, but then, becomes enraged and tries to stab Babe exactly the same way he stabbed Doc. I hope all is well with you. A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process. Know what I mean?William Goldman, one of Hollywood's few celebrity screenwriters, wrote both the original novel and the script for this film version. View production, box office, & company info. One of the biggest grouses i have is regards to Dustin Hoffman’s performance, which comes across as too labored and over the top. Marathon Man: Method-maestro Dustin Hoffman battles the great thespian Laurence Olivier in this pulse-pounding thriller that’s basically a ‘coming of age’ story and tackles deeper themes like anti-Semitism, Follow MANK'S MOVIE MUSINGS on WordPress.com. Marathon Man At the beginning of the film, we see his brother getting killed in a fit of road rage. Casting Laurence Olivier as the sadistic dentist sinking into insanity was a brilliant idea. There are quite a lot of stuff kept hanging. Here, he is magnificent as Babe and makes us part of his journey as we are experiencing what he’s going through. The "dental horror" scene is still quite effective, though it's rather short; I was more impressed by the subsequent chase through the dark streets of NYC. Since I write about old films I always take it for granted that people who are reading it has seen the film. At first, Babe is seen leading a totally protected life as a student, away from all the turmoil and conspiracies of the real world. Add to that Laurence Olivier’s performance, which is great all round, but is particularly effective in this sequence: his cold, detached demeanor, his artist like care and temperament while using his tools, and his utter contempt for human life – he holds his probes in one one hand and clove oil in another to prove to Babe how easily interchangeable pain and relief, life and death is. We see Babe lying in the bathtub of his ramshackle apartment, when he hear voices outside in the dark; he jumps out and shuts the door. Hoffman told him, to which Olivier replied in jest “Why not try acting? And has that led to kind of a narcissistic streak in him where he has been interfering during the making of his movies/ghost directing like how Hoffman was notorious known for doing it in his heyday? Levy, in pursuing the same studies as him, his father who committed suicide while being under investigation in the Communist witch hunts. I’d like to give a special shoutout to Michael Small for his score. But slowly, one event after another starts happening in his life that begins to test his mettle. After your Virumandi writeup (which I still have yet to watch), I’ve been careful to only read your reviews of classic/sometimes contemporary films that I’ve watched before like AAA, AS, A Bridge Too Far, Scarface, Sharaabi and this movie to name a few and comment if necessary. Let’s agree to disagree on Hoffman! One of the most famous, real-life Hollywood stories of generational clash between actors, which was later found to be more apocryphal, is the one involving the great British thespian, Sir Laurence Olivier, and new age method-wiz kid, Dustin Hoffman, on the sets of Director John Schlesinger’s 1976 thriller, Marathon Man. Also, in the form of corrupt government agent, Janeway, who joins hands with Nazi, Szell, we get a modern representation of McCarthyism. Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer. Having said that, I love his acting and movies. The diamonds enabled him to lead a luxurious life in exile. Take the opening of the film for instance: we have two events taking place in parallel. With Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane. Change ). He would have never made it through if he was a “Hoffman” kind of method actor; because Hoffman believes in ‘living’ a character ‘inside out’ rather than creating an illusion. So does … Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap. Meanwhile, Szell has retrieved his diamonds successfully from the bank, but in an attempt to to determine their value, he’s forced to visit the Diamond district in midtown Manhattan, where a number of holocaust survivors recognize him. These moments are the real transformative moments in Babe’s life, and later when he escape, it’s thanks to his endless hours of training and skills as an endurance runner. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. While out for a walk in Central Park late one night, Babe and Elsa are mugged, the unusual aspect of it being that their attackers were men in suits. While at Columbia, Babe meets and begins to date Elsa Opel, a foreign exchange student also in History. Forced to flee, Szell is confronted by Babe, who leads him at gunpoint into a water-treatment facility in South Gate House, Central Park. Was this review helpful to you? Babe will learn that the mugging was not a random attack after someone close to Babe is found murdered, the deceased who was not who he purported to be. Even if Olivier never said those words, chances are that he was dying to say this to Hoffman. Regarding Kamal and Hoffman, what he meant I think is that they’re not naturally as talented as Brando. ( Log Out /  It’s much easier.”; in another version Olivier tells this to Schlesinger: “Hasn’t the boy heard of acting?”. Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (/ ˈ l ɒr ə n s ˈ k ɜːr ə ˈ l ɪ v i eɪ /; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trinity of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Babe's work does not sit well with Doc who wants Babe to move on with his life. From here, Babe is thrown into an international conspiracy concerning Nazi war criminal Christian Szell in hiding, and a large cache of ... Robert DeMora Dies: Costume Designer For Bette Midler, ‘Risky Business’ Was 85, Paul Crifo, Designer of Iconic Film Posters, Dies at 98, Everything Coming To Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max, Hulu And Prime In September. Babe's work does not sit well with Doc who wants Babe to move on with his life. JOHN SCHLESINGER Director. ( Log Out /  Laurence Olivier (1907–1989) was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, ... Marathon Man (1976) and The Boys from Brazil (1978). This line is spoken by Dr. Christian Szell, played by Laurence Olivier, in the film Marathon Man, directed by John Schlesinger (1976). Marathon Man(1976), Directed by John Schlesinger from a novel by William Goldman, and starring Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider and Laurence Olivier, is a superbly crafted thriller that tackles deeper themes of Nazism, anti-Semitism and the rites of passage to adulthood. One of the most famous, real-life Hollywood stories of generational clash between actors, which was… He’s beaten up in the park, his girlfriend turns out to be phony, his brother dies, he’s kidnapped and tortured, then he escapes and starts his quest for vengeance. Babe throws the suitcase into the water, and Szell, in his attempt to catch it, slips and falls down the steps and ends up stabbing and killing himself with his knife. And sorry to disappoint you and Schlesinger, but Pacino would have been a misfit for the role. He brings realism, depth and empathy to his roles which makes me feel like I’m one of them. Directed by John Schlesinger and featuring an all-star cast, Marathon Man moves with nail-biting suspense to its thrilling, fever-pitched conclusion. Believing that Doc has stolen a valuable cache of gems, Szell emerges from his South American hiding place and heads for New York. At it’s very basic level, Marathon Man(1976), is a purely generic exercise in a slick Hollywood escapist thriller, but here’s where the men who make the movies and the time it is made plays a part in elevating a genre exercise into something more powerful and artistic. pour télécharger et voir les films en streaming gratuitement sur notre site enregistrer vous gratuitement . This conflict in acting styles between Hoffman and Olivier adds a nice ‘meta’ layer to Marathon Man, because the characters they play in the film are opposites in every way. Though Senator McCarthy and his HUAC was supposed to out communists in every walk of American life, it was mainly targeted against Jews, and it can be understood from the fact that all those who were blacklisted as part of it, particularly in Hollywood, were mainly Jews. Funniest combo of 2 classic AFI's Quotes ... Alternate Storylines for Famous Films - Part IV, Best Film Adaptations Written by the Author. Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the US government and escaped Nazi war criminal Szell (Laurence Olivier). By the war’s end, before he went into hiding, he was smart enough to convert his fortune into diamonds and deposit them in a Manhattan bank. Is It Safe? Also, you cannot make some serious points about the film without mentioning the full plot sometimes. Also, a lot of the explanation for the stuff that happens in the first act actually comes only in the second and third acts (for some mysteries, there’re no explanation at all). Thomas "Babe" Levy, whose brother Henry James "Doc" Levy is an oil business executive, is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Columbia University. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Laurence Olivier (left) and Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man Credit: Alamy “Is it safe?”. Add the first question. Cast: Dustin Hoffman. One of the reasons for this is that as a new-Hollywood director, Schlesinger is more concerned with character rather than plot, but in a mystery\thriller the plot is of paramount importance, and the source novel has a hell of a lot of plot. He is too larger than life to play a terrified grad student and he doesn’t really convince as a Jew; there would be a little too much Italian if he played it. But, alas, I find the ultimate explanation of these events to be rather prosaic and disappointing.So, I think the movie's strengths lie in the acting and directing, more so than the story. we see him losing that race with the tall, blonde guy in the beginning, but now when he’s running for his life, he manages to outpace his adversaries, which includes Janeway. Laurence Olivier. It’s very hard to follow the plot in these portions. But these issues aside, the film still works for me; purely on a visceral level, it’s thrilling and engrossing, and on an intellectual level, it may not be fully convincing, but i find it ambitious and thought provoking. I'm a little less enamored of Dustin Hoffman, whose character is inexplicably nicknamed "Babe." It's worth watching just for the terrifying scene when the bad guys start tearing Hoffman's door off its hinges - it's good stuff. Wish there were more scenes with Scheider who is excellent as Doc, but he pales in comparison to Olivier and Hoffman. Marathon Man is a 1974 conspiracy thriller novel by William Goldman. I guess we’ll always disagree on Hoffman . Olivier didn't want to appear in this … He was nominated for nine other acting Oscars and one each for production and … Look back at our favorite moments throughout the year, from award shows to up-close shots of celebrities. Hoffman refused to pay it as it was written by Goldman, in which Babe takes Szell to the central park and shoots and kills him. It’s a pity that he dies by the middle of the film. Hoffman has repeatedly denied the story, and blamed this on a journalist who interviewed him on the set of the film for misquoting him; according to him: The torture scene was filmed early in the morning, Hoffman was going through a divorce from his first wife and was depressed, and had spent the previous two nights partying hard. 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