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Marathon Man (1976)  link to Marathon Man on IMDb  

Number: 33

poster Marathon Man

IMDb Rating:
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7.5/10 (52438 votes)

Country: USA, 125 minutes

Spoken Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Yiddish

Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Director(s): John Schlesinger

Storyline:
Thomas "Babe" Levy, whose brother Henry James "Doc" Levy is an oil business executive, is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Columbia University. He is also training as a marathon runner. Babe is paying homage to his deceased father, H.B. Levy, in pursuing the same studies as him, his father who committed suicide while being under investigation in the Communist witch hunts. Babe's work does not sit well with Doc who wants Babe to move on with his life. While at Columbia, Babe meets and begins to date Elsa Opel, a foreign exchange student also in History. While out for a walk in Central Park late one night, Babe and Elsa are mugged, the unusual aspect of it being that their attackers were men in suits. Babe will learn that the mugging was not a random attack after someone close to Babe is found murdered, the deceased who was not who he purported to be. From here, Babe is thrown into an international conspiracy concerning Nazi war criminal Christian Szell in hiding, and a large cache of ...

Cast:

photo Dustin Hoffman Dustin Hoffman Babe
photo Laurence Olivier Laurence Olivier Szell
photo Roy Scheider Roy Scheider Doc
photo William Devane William Devane Janeway
photo Marthe Keller Marthe Keller Elsa

Medium: Unknown,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1