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      • Synopsis As a Columbia University graduate student, Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman), spends his spare time running in marathons. However, he winds up running for his life when he inadvertently becomes entangled in an espionage plot.
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  1. Thomas "Babe" Levy (Dustin Hoffman) is a history Ph.D. candidate and avid marathon runner researching the same field as his father, who committed suicide after being investigated in the Communist witch hunts of the Joseph McCarthy era.

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  3. Marathon Man: Directed by John Schlesinger. With Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane. After the murder of his older brother, a New York history student is hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.

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    • Crime, Drama, Thriller
    • John Schlesinger
    • 1976-10-08
  4. Marathon Man runs the gamut from patient mystery to pulse-pounding thriller, aided by Laurence Oliver's coldly terrifying performance and a brainy script by William Goldman. Read...

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    • John Schlesinger
    • R
    • Dustin Hoffman
  5. Marathon Man is a 1976 American thriller film directed by John Schlesinger. It was adapted by William Goldman from his 1974 novel of the same title and stars Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane and Marthe Keller.

    • John Schlesinger
  6. Dec 5, 2007 · Babe Levy is a Columbia University graduate student and avid runner who is haunted by the memory of his father's suicide, brought about by the McCarthy witchhunts. Babe's brother, Doc, an American secret agent, helps sneak Szell, an old Nazi, into the US from South America.

    • John Schlesinger, Everett Creach
    • Dustin Hoffman
  7. Overview. A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division. William Goldman. Novel, Screenplay.

  8. Plot Synopsis. Doc Levy (Roy Scheider), an American secret agent, who is thought to have stolen a valuable cache of diamonds (originally stolen from Jewish concentration camp victims), is killed by evil ex-Nazi Szell (Laurence Olivier), an ex-concentration camp dentist by profession.

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