Marathon Man (1976 film)

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film thriller film

Marathon Man is a 1976 American thriller film, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, about a graduate student unwittingly entangled in a deadly conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal and stolen diamonds.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	film → thriller film →
antagonist	Christian Szell →
author	William Goldman →
awardNomination	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor →
basedOn	Marathon Man (novel) →
cinematographyBy	Conrad Hall →
colorProcess	color →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	John Schlesinger →
distributedBy	Paramount Pictures →
distributorRegion	theatrical →
editedBy	Jim Clark →
famousLine	Is it safe? →
filmingProcess	35 mm film →
genre	suspense film → thriller →
hasTheme	post-war Nazi hunting → trust and betrayal → violence and trauma →
mainCharacter	Thomas "Babe" Levy →
mpaaRating	R →
musicBy	Michael Small →
narrativeFocus	graduate student entangled in espionage →
nominatedFor	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Marathon Man (1976 film) →
originalLanguage	English →
plotKeyword	Nazi war criminal → conspiracy → stolen diamonds → torture →
portrayedBy	Dustin Hoffman → Laurence Olivier →
producer	Robert Evans →
productionCompany	Paramount Pictures →
releaseYear	1976 →
runningTime	approximately 125 minutes →
screenwriter	William Goldman →
settingLocation	New York City → Paris → South America →
starring	Dustin Hoffman → Laurence Olivier → Marthe Keller → Roy Scheider → William Devane →
timePeriodSetting	1970s →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Laurence Olivier → Roy Scheider ("Marathon Man") →	notableWork
Marathon Man (1976 film) ("Marathon Man (novel)") →	basedOn