Putting his marathon training to use, Babe escapes Szell, andĮventually the pursuer becomes the pursued. After killing Doc, Szell uses the tools of his dentist's trade to torture Babe for information the student doesn't possess. Szell's brother, who has watched over a fortune in jewels takenįrom Jewish concentration camp victims, has died, and Szell has come to New York to collect the booty. Babe's brother, Doc (Roy Scheider), an American secret agent, helps sneak Szell (Laurence Olivier), an old Nazi, into the US from South America. Haunted by the memory of his father's suicide, brought about by the McCarthy witchhunts. Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman), a Columbia University graduate student who runs whenever possible, dreaming of the Olympic marathon, is A truly harrowing film, MARATHON MAN is a clever series of accidents that produce a nightmare thriller with an unrelenting attack on the viewer's nerves.
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