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Marathon Man
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
1976 · Directed by John Schlesinger · 126 min · Thriller · Crime · Drama · 16 frames
Tagline
One man's dangerous attempts to clear his father's name
Crew
- Screenplay: William Goldman
- Cinematography: Conrad Hall
- Edited by: Jim Clark
- Music: Michael Small
- Production design: Richard Macdonald
- Produced by: Sidney Beckerman, Robert Evans
Cast
- Dustin Hoffman as Thomas 'Babe' Levy
- Laurence Olivier as Dr. Christian Szell
- Roy Scheider as Henry 'Doc' Levy
- William Devane as Janeway
- Marthe Keller as Elsa Opel
- Fritz Weaver as Professor Biesenthal
- Richard Bright as Karl
- Marc Lawrence as Erhard
- James Wing Woo as Chen
- Lou Gilbert as Rosenbaum
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
- Budget: $6,500,000
- Box office: $21,709,020
- Themes: new york city, government, based on novel or book, nazi, diamond, conspiracy, psychological thriller, theft, criminal, agent
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