Marathon Man (1975) is one of the well-known '70s movies that I have heard so much about, but have never seen. And Netflix is helping me get through so many of them. While some seem ancient and very dated, Marathon Man holds up pretty well.
Starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier and Roy Scheider, Marathon Man is a thriller, dealing with a shady U.S. Govt agency that plays in all the gray areas of world affairs, Nazi fugitives, and a naive, idealistic student, training for a marathon, Dustin Hoffman as Babe Levy.
The plot sometimes is a little fantastic, as are the plots of many thrillers, but the movie sustains its tension. And the famous scene where the Nazi dentist (played very well by Olivier) tortures Levy with dental instruments, is as painful to watch today as it ever was.
Not quite a great film, Marathon Man is very good, and it holds up well into this century.
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