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Marathon Man is a 1976 American 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 .
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Marathon Man: Directed by John Schlesinger. With Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane. After the murder of his older brother, a New York history student is hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- John Schlesinger
- 1976-10-08
Apr 10, 2024 · “Marathon Man” begins with a grotesque argument between two drivers, culminating in a car scuffle and the death of both due to an accident. It quickly turns out that one of them is the brother of a former Nazi, Christian Szell (Sir Laurence Olivier).
Ben Dova, who played Klaus Szell who dies in a freak (but mundane) accident in the opening, was a former vaudevillian and daredevil known for his death-defying stunts. In fact, he managed to escape the Hindenburg disaster by clinging to the side and performing a safety roll as it crashed.
Novel, Screenplay. A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
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Doc suspects that the criminal, Dr. Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier) will be arriving to retrieve an extremely valuable diamond collection. Szell later sends a burly assassin named Chen (James Wing Woo) to kill Doc in his Paris hotel room, but Doc fights the hit man and breaks his back.
