Political intrigue at its finest involving Nazis US govt and a NY college student
Marathon Man came out during a slew of political thrillers such as 3 Days of the Condor, The Boys From Brazil, and All The President’s Men. The film was based upon a book of the same name by William Goldman.<br /><br />The story begins in what appears to be three disparate characters. First, two old men get into an argument in New York City. That ends in a deadly crash. It turns out one of the men was a brother of an infamous Nazi, Szell (Laurence Olivier) who lives in hiding in South America because he’s wanted for war crimes for his work at Auschwitz. Then there’s Babe (Dustin Hoffman) who is a college student at Columbia who is working on his PhD. His brother is Doc (Roy Schneider), a secret government agent for a group called the Division in France with a hit out on him. It turns out everything revolves around diamonds Szell stole from Jews in Auschwitz during World War II. His brother, and Doc were both carriers in this business facilitated by the U.S. government, and Babe gets caught up in the intrigue.<br /><br />The movie is beautifully done with plenty of intrigue and drama. One of the attempts on Doc’s life in Paris for example is inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window as an assassin attempts to strangle Doc on a hotel balcony, while a man in a wheelchair across the street witnesses it. In another scene Babe meets a girlfriend in school, Else (Marthe Keller), who claims to be Swiss, but at a dinner with Doc she’s exposed as a fake. There’s also the famous scene of how Szell attempts to extract information from Babe by torturing him using dentistry. Most importantly, how all the characters are connected, and what exactly the plot is about is slowly rolled out so the viewer is constantly trying to figure out just what exactly is happening. It’s what makes this one of the great films of its time.<br />C
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