Marathon Man is a 1976 American thriller film directed by John Schlesinger, starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, Marthe Keller and William Devane.
Plot[]
Thomas "Babe" Levy (Dustin Hoffman) is a Columbia graduate student and long-distance runner who is oblivious to the fact that his older brother, Doc (Roy Scheider), is a government agent chasing down a Nazi war criminal (Laurence Olivier). That is, until Doc is murdered and Babe finds himself knee-deep in a tangle of stolen gems and sadistic madmen. Even his girlfriend, Elsa (Marthe Keller), becomes a suspect as everything Babe believed to be true is suddenly turned upside down.
Cast[]
- Dustin Hoffman as Thomas Babington "Babe" Levy
- Laurence Olivier as Dr. Christian Szell
- Roy Scheider as Agent Henry "Doc" Levy
- William Devane as Commander Peter "Janey" Janeway
- Marthe Keller as Elsa Opel
- Fritz Weaver as Professor Biesenthal
- Richard Bright as Karl
- Marc Lawrence as Erhardt
- Allen Joseph as H.V. Levy
- Tito Goya as Melendez
- Ben Dova as Klaus Szell
- Lou Gilbert as Rosenbaum
- Jacques Marin as LeClerc