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Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Everett Creach, John Schlesinger, Robert Evans, Marthe Keller
Directed By: John Schlesinger, Allan Garden
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0097360878943
Format: Anamorphic
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2001-08-28
Running Time: 125
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1976-10-08
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Summary: A Classic
Comment: It is almost a cliche - the line "Is it safe?" and the related fear of dentists that everyone seems to have from this movie.
A wonderful thriller with outstanding performances by Dustin Hoffman and Lawrence Olivier plus numerous others.
Hoffman gets mixed up with some rather unsavory characters who think that he has information and he is pursued relentlessly for something he cannot provide.
One of the best thrillers you will ever see.
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Summary: Outstanding action
Comment: It is always nice to review a classic movie with superb performances like Olivier and Hoffmann
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Summary: Is it safe?
Comment: Marathon Man is a truly thrilling film - something that most "thrillers" actually fail to achieve. In some ways it seems like a precurosr to the "Bourne" films with its far-flung locations and its one-man-against-the-system premise. If you want to sit back in your seat and be glued to the spot by a film the like of which they just don't seem to make any more then you've come to the right place. For me it's right up there with other classics of its era - Three Days Of The Condor, French Connection and Day Of The Jackal - packed with surprises and twists and turns, action and great perfromances from Hoffman, Olivier et al. And, if you've seen the film before, it wears well and is worth a return visit.
This DVD also has an excellent Making Of with interesting interviews with Bob Evans and Dustin Hoffman and William Goldman's honest take on the 'new' ending drafted on by the film-makers.
Good trivia: The little guy at the start of the film who takes the diamonds out of the bank vault was a survivor of the Hindenberg disaster and his real name, believe it or not, was Ben Dova! The actress who plays the woman who identifies Olivier's character and utters those fateful words, "Der weisse Engel!" over and over was, like her character, a survivoe of the camps.
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Summary: DIAMONDS ARE NOT FOREVER
Comment: The professional reviewers never seemed to think too highly of this movie, and this amateur can't see why. Olivier is terrific as a former Nazi, who's forced to come out of hiding when his brother dies, leaving a veritable warchest of diamonds in a New York safe deposit box. That the diamonds were bought by this heinous dentist from tooth extractions of gold and silver from victims of Nazi concentration camps is of no matter whatever.Hoffman's brother is hot on Zell's (Olivier's) trail, when the dentist confronts and stabs him to death; the victim falling at Hoffman's feet. That does it; no more graduate work, no more training for road races until Hoffman's brother's death is avenged.While the path to Zell is fraught with pain, duplicity,and danger, Hoffman..well,see for yourself! You'll be highly entertained, even if the "experts" weren't.
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Summary: Can I give it 6 stars?
Comment: What more can be said......This movie has been out long enough for everybody to have already seen it.
Better then 5 stars.
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John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) directed this gripping, entertaining 1977 thriller that centers on graduate student Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate, Tootsie). Hoffman plays a sullen and cowardly loner haunted by the suicide of his father, a suspected communist. He is drawn into a murky web of international intrigue when his brother, CIA agent Doc Levy, played by Roy Scheider (Jaws, The French Connection), is murdered by a former Nazi (Laurence Olivier) who has come to the United States to reclaim a valuable stash of diamonds. Babe (Hoffman) must confront his fears of the past as he runs for his life and tries to avenge his brother's death at the same time. Featuring a classic torture sequence and a terrific cast that includes William Devane and Marthe Keller, this film written by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men) stands as a great entertainment and as one of the seminal films of the 1970s. --Robert Lane
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