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| Dustin Hoffman & Marthe Keller in MARATHON MAN Year: 1976 |
The epitome of a Thriller, John Schlesinger's MARATHON MAN
can be a letdown with the teaming of two legends — one very old, the other, at that time, part of a fairly new crop of intense method actors. And we'll get the "Why don't you try acting" elephant out of the room — which was Olivier's famous quip to Hoffman as he needed to run a block before getting into character...
Then again, Dustin
is the title
character, and not just standing around reciting Shakespeare — spending most of the picture completely winded/exhausted from either jogging around New York's Central Park or being chased throughout the last half when this Thriller turns into a straight-out Action flick: Which
isn't the best part of MARATHON MAN as Roy Scheider plays Dustin's older brother "Babe" in the most suspenseful scenes: he's some kind of secret agent, eventually connecting with his passive New York collegiate sibling after being introduced in Paris, France, where director Schlesinger (reunited with MIDNIGHT COWBOY star Hoffman) evokes a fair amount of nail-biting Hitchcockesque tension as things either explode or seem just about to...
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| Laurence Olivier arrives in MARATHON MAN Rating: ***1/2 |
The best moment has a shrewd Schieder calling out his brother's far-too-perfect and convenient German girlfriend Marthe Keller at a fancy New York restaurant, which seems part of another espionage story that's just getting started...
So when the film
suddenly shifts into that hectic, Noir-inspired
city-after-hours foot-chase involving the iconic, literally torturous sequence as Olivier — a former Nazi concentration camp dentist — pulls Hoffman's teeth for information along the way, it's simply winding down to a somewhat generic face-off/conclusion. In a nutshell, MARATHON MAN is more of a prolonged quick sprint... that
should leave you equally exercised.
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| Next Years' SHORT EYES youngsters Tito Goya and Church Ortiz in Marathon Man |
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| Dustin Hoffman studies up in MARATHON MAN |
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| Dustin Hoffman studies up in MARATHON MAN |
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| Laurence Olivier arrives in America for the Nazi antagonist role in Marathon Man |
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| Henchman Mark Lawrence, scene-stealer Roy Scheider and Laurence Olivier in MARATHON MAN |
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| Awesome closeup of an exploding doll in MARATHON MAN |
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| Cover of the Videodisc cover of MARATHON MAN |
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| Olivier's henchman played by Richard Bright and Marc Lawrence |
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| Roy Scheider in the Paris, France sequences of MARATHON MAN |
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| A Thriller is the simple and fitting tagline for MARATHON MAN |
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