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Marathon Man (1976)
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John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) directed this gripping, entertaining 1977 thriller that centers on graduate student Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate, Tootsie). Hoffman plays a sullen and cowardly loner haunted by the suicide of his father, a suspected communist. He is drawn into a murky web of international intrigue when his brother, CIA agent Doc Levy, played by Roy Scheider (Jaws, The French Connection), is murdered by a former Nazi (Laurence Olivier) who has come to the United States to reclaim a valuable stash of diamonds. Babe (Hoffman) must confront his fears of the past as he runs for his life and...
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| Marathon Man Movie Review by Jarrod (12/12/2007) |
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'Marathon Man' is a skillfully made thriller from John Schlesinger, best-known for his Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy. That it has loose ends and plot holes is not even a sufficient criticism, since it doesn't really matter. William Goldman, adapting his own novel, has cut some corners, but suspense builds nicely, and you...
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