Olivier and Scheider give particularly great performances, and Marthe Keller comes across as appropriately sweet and sexy (her big "secret," though, should be really easy for anyone to guess!) A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute. Fritz Weaver. Marathon Man (1976) is a scary nightmare thriller, ... (Laurence Olivier), an ex-concentration camp dentist by profession. A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection. Laurence Olivier could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them", said English playwright Charles Bennett, who met Olivier in 1927. I can watch it numerous times and never get bored. After your Virumandi writeup (which I still have yet to watch), I’ve been careful to only read your reviews of classic/sometimes contemporary films that I’ve watched before like AAA, AS, A Bridge Too Far, Scarface, Sharaabi and this movie to name a few and comment if necessary. Casting Laurence Olivier as the sadistic dentist sinking into insanity was a brilliant idea. And his progression to manhood goes hand in hand with his coming to terms with his Jewishness. Do you agree with it? It's worth watching just for the terrifying scene when the bad guys start tearing Hoffman's door off its hinges - it's good stuff. Hoffman is an actor i always have trouble warming up to; he’s my least favorite actor from the New-Hollywood phase; and apart from movies like The Graduate and Rainman, i always find him unconvincing and heavy-going in serious dramatic roles. The locker to the bank vault holding the diamonds have 2 keys, one is with Szell and the other is with his brother, who’s his only conduit with the outside world. Roy Scheider Actor. The ending does look a bit off; Goldman called it downright stupid. Though you give away the entire plot in your deep dives (one of your characteristics which will never go away) it’s still compelling to read. Der Marathon-Mann Marathon Man, Laurence Olivier, Dustin Hoffmann Kurz darauf wird sein Bruder getoetet und Babe (Dustin Laurence Olivier (1907-1989), with 'The Old Vic Theatre Company' - May 1946, at the Century Theatre in New York City. Hoffman would run for a half-mile, so when he came into a scene where he would be shown exhausted from running, he would actually be out of breath. Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (/ ˈ l ɒr ə n s ˈ k ɜːr ə ˈ l ɪ v i eɪ /; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trinity of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. Having said that, I love his acting and movies. She did better opposite Pacino in Bobby Deerfield. Written by Directed by John Schlesinger and featuring an all-star cast, Marathon Man moves with nail-biting suspense to its thrilling, fever-pitched conclusion. John Schlesinger on Laurence Oliver & Dustin Hoffman Marathon Man story. Now Szell thinks Babe was in on Doc’s plan to rob his diamonds; so he has Babe kidnapped and tortured (using his Auschwitz style dentistry) to make him reveal what he knows about this diamond business. Babe has been tormented about this all his life, and his running and his obsession with attaining a PhD. These portions play more like a horror film; right from the eerie setting of the plaza where Szell kills Doc, and then a totally bloodied Doc barging into Babe’s room like a ghost. Late in his career, he had … Insider is a film I have mixed feelings, but there’s no question about the performances or Michael Mann’s artistry. Dark, depressing, and often grainy-looking and washed out. One of the most famous, real-life Hollywood stories of generational clash between actors, which was later found to be more apocryphal, is the one involving the great British thespian, Sir Laurence Olivier, and new age method-wiz kid, Dustin Hoffman, on the sets of Director John Schlesinger’s 1976 thriller, Marathon Man. he desperately cries for help, but to no avail, by then the intruders have caught him and they try to drown him in the bathtub as he passes out. Laurence Olivier received an Academy Award nomination for his chilling portrayal of the sadistic Szell, who turns dental instruments into tools of torture with dispassionate ease. Both Szell and Babe are now in Auschwitz; Babe is going to have the same nightmares that every European Jew a generation before him has had, while for Szell it’s moment of wish fulfillment; he’s now back at doing what he does best. ( Log Out /  Usually I like normal-looking, non-glamorous actors, but somehow Hoffman doesn't float my boat.Still, it's hard not to sympathize with the poor guy while he's being pursued, beaten, tortured etc. Please allow approximately 20 extra minutes for pre-show and trailers before the show … Marathon Man(1976), Directed by John Schlesinger from a novel by William Goldman, and starring Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider and Laurence Olivier, is a superbly crafted thriller that tackles deeper themes of Nazism, anti-Semitism and the rites of passage to adulthood. Please keep your passionate love for movies going strong! At it’s very basic level, Marathon Man(1976), is a purely generic exercise in a slick Hollywood escapist thriller, but here’s where the men who make the movies and the time it is made plays a part in elevating a genre exercise into something more powerful and artistic. It has a couple of classic scenes, a famous line, and features the match-up of veteran actor Laurence Olivier and method actor Dustin Hoffman, which lead to one of the most famous acting anecdotes of all time. But then, Janeway does a volte-face and tries to shoot Babe. Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the US government and escaped Nazi war criminal Szell (Laurence Olivier). From his novel. Babe's work does not sit well with Doc who wants Babe to move on with his life. Bleeding to death, Doc somehow makes it back to Babe’s apartment and falls dead in front of a shocked Babe. In 1979 he was also presented with an Honorary Award, at the Academy Awards, to recognise his lifetime of contribution to the art of film. The story goes something like this: Dustin Hoffman (being a “method actor”) stayed up all night to play a character who has stayed up all night. Though the film’s first half is concerned with setting up the mystery, it feels rather disjointed, and Schlesinger’s staccato style of editing that worked well for Midnight Cowboy is not suited for a traditional thriller, where the audience should be kept in the loop all the time as to how the mystery is developing. student in Columbia university, who is also training to be a Marathon runner. Babe is paying homage to his deceased father, H.B. pour télécharger et voir les films en streaming gratuitement sur notre site enregistrer vous gratuitement . Every time he’s need money, Szell have his brother take one diamond out and bring it to him, which he would sell it through his couriers. The best GIFs are on GIPHY. Where was Marathonman filmed? Szell, played by Olivier, was the ‘the White Angel’ (named so because of his prominent mane of white hair) of Auschwitz; the doctor who used to do experiments on Jews detained in concentration camps. Babe's work does not sit well with Doc who wants Babe to move on with his life. I have a few questions for you: I read somewhere along with his acting influences like Brando, Sivaji, Chaplin and Sellers, Kamal has said he feels like the Dustin Hoffman of Indian Cinema. Olivier is so magnetic as Szell that the audience is repulsed yet strangely attracted by him. Marathon Man (1976). It’s much easier.”; in another version Olivier tells this to Schlesinger: “Hasn’t the boy heard of acting?”. Szell then takes Doc by surprise and stabs him with a blade concealed in his sleeve. One of the biggest grouses i have is regards to Dustin Hoffman’s performance, which comes across as too labored and over the top. You, Madan, Jeeva (though I feel he preaches a bit too much on BR’s blog) and I are probably the only few who write exhaustive and exhausting writeups because we passionately love the topics we write about. His deranged … a college student and a long distance runner who live his life in the open in New York city. Directed by John Schlesinger and featuring an all-star cast, Marathon Man moves with nail-biting suspense to its thrilling, fever-pitched conclusion. 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. There’s no background score to go with this scene, it’s all natural sound effects as in Friedkin’s The Exorcist. Now, it’s Babe’s turn to torture Szell, both physically and mentally. Schlesinger’s attempts to tackle the story through Babe’s character is not always successful, because for the most part, he’s a supporting player in this story, and his brother, Doc, is the driving force of the central narrative. Title: He believes in building up his narrative and characterization linearly, and infuses his novels\screenplays with richly detailed characters and clever wordplay. ... LAURENCE OLIVIER Actor. Laurence Kerr Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England, to Agnes Louise (Crookenden) and Gerard Kerr Olivier, a High Anglican priest. Even if Olivier never said those words, chances are that he was dying to say this to Hoffman. Being a dentist, he used to takeout the golden tooth of the Jews before he burned them, and thereby collected a nice fortune. At the meeting, Doc violently chastises Szell for involving Babe in these matters, and warns him that he himself is not to be trusted- meaning that Doc may be planning to steal Szell’s diamonds. Marathon Man(1976), Directed by John Schlesinger from a novel by William Goldman, and starring Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider and Laurence Olivier, is a superbly crafted thriller that tackles deeper themes of Nazism, anti-Semitism and the rites of passage to adulthood. There are quite a lot of stuff kept hanging. A history student becomes caught in the middle of a dangerous international plot involving Nazis, stolen jewels, and government agents. Thomas "Babe" Levy, whose brother Henry James "Doc" Levy is an oil business executive, is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Columbia University. Though Senator McCarthy and his HUAC was supposed to out communists in every walk of American life, it was mainly targeted against Jews, and it can be understood from the fact that all those who were blacklisted as part of it, particularly in Hollywood, were mainly Jews. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. You’ve made improvements to your writing and it reads more clearly. So, you could clearly see the links that Goldman makes between these two tyrannical philosophies. Marc Lawrence. And sorry to disappoint you and Schlesinger, but Pacino would have been a misfit for the role. You Might Also Like. The combination of these two talents create interesting results. But these issues aside, the film still works for me; purely on a visceral level, it’s thrilling and engrossing, and on an intellectual level, it may not be fully convincing, but i find it ambitious and thought provoking. So before he comes to New York city, he has his men kill everyone who has knowledge of his diamonds. Hoffman told Olivier this and his comment related to his lifestyle and not his “method” style of acting, which means that Olivier was telling Hoffman to drown his sorrows in his work, in his acting rather than partying. Babe, who thinks his brother is a businessman, is happy to see him back, but is later disturbed when Doc exposes Elsa to be a phony, who’s in love with Babe only to marry him and gain American citizenship (Doc does not tell Babe anything about Szell or his diamonds). By the war’s end, before he went into hiding, he was smart enough to convert his fortune into diamonds and deposit them in a Manhattan bank. JOHN SCHLESINGER Director. But the film also has my other favorite from that time, Roy Scheider, who’s so effortless, and effortlessly cool and macho, like the Bogart of 70s. The Invisible Man. Laurence Olivier (left) and Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man Credit: Alamy “Is it safe?”. I’m fine with that, MANK! A couple of attempts are made on Doc’s life by Szell’s henchman, Chen, in Paris, but he manages to escape both. The film was one of the half a dozen films to use the newly invented Steadicam technology, and it gives a fluid feel to the running scenes. He is also training as a marathon runner. Directed by John Schlesinger. 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. This happens again when Szell later works on a fresh teeth of Babe’s. The film can also be looked upon as a ‘Coming of age’ tale, where ‘Babe’, the baby becomes the ‘man’, and hence the title Marathon Man has additional relevance. Marathon man was a 'pleasant' surprise with its downright macabre tone and high body count. in history from Columbia University is part of that. Then, Babe has a confrontation with Janeway and Szell’s henchman at Szell’s brother’s house, where Janeway offers to let Babe kill Szell in revenge for Doc’s death, if Janeway can have the diamonds; he also gives Babe the location of Szell’s bank. Laurence Olivier, Actor: Sleuth. 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