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His brother Doc's dealings with Szell
- In the film, "Babe" Levy, a graduate student, becomes embroiled in a plot by Nazi war criminal Christian Szell to retrieve ill-gotten diamonds from a safe deposit box owned by Szell's dead brother. Babe becomes unwittingly involved due to his brother Doc's dealings with Szell.
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Dec 17, 2021 · John Schlesinger’s taut 1976 thriller stars Dustin Hoffman as “Babe,” a graduate student and avid runner, who becomes involved in his older brother’s secret-agent conspiracy. Laurence Olivier’s Dr. Szell, the other main character in the scene, doesn’t believe Babe is so innocent.
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Babe becomes unwittingly involved due to his brother Doc's dealings with Szell. The film was a critical and box-office success. Olivier received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Szell, the film's antagonist.
And before Babe quite knows what happens, he’s involved in an intrigue so labyrinthine that neither he nor the movie ever quite figures it out. The intrigue involves a former Nazi named Szell, played by Laurence Olivier with a certain urbane composure that makes him seem all the more ominous.
Jun 6, 2021 · Janey is a double agent pretending to oppose Szell by temporarily rescuing Babe from the dentist torture, but he wants the diamonds, too, and he gives Babe back to Szell when he realizes he can’t get any information from him.
Jan 26, 2017 · Hence, it seems a bit odd when a pretty Swiss student (Marthe Keller) responds to Babe's awkward advances. When Doc--the sharp-dressed opposite of his brother--meets Babe's girlfriend, he immediately spots a fraud. But then, nothing is as it seems in Marathon Man and that includes Doc, too.
Babe Levy is a Columbia University graduate student and avid runner who is haunted by the memory of his father's suicide, brought about by the McCarthy witch-hunts. Babe's brother, Doc, an American secret agent, helps sneak Szell, an old Nazi, into the US from South America.
Jan 26, 2021 · “Babe” Levy (played by Dustin Hoffman) is our protagonist and titular marathon man, a nervy academic trying to redeem his blacklisted father, who we learn committed suicide under the terrible pressures the Red Scare of the 1950s brought down on him.
