Released 1976
Stars Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller
Directed by John Schlesinger

Marathon Man (1976) is a scary nightmare thriller, known for the suspenseful pursuit scenes and a truly repellent scene of torture. Doc Levy (Roy Scheider), an American secret agent, who is thought to have stolen a valuable cache of diamonds, is killed by evil ex-Nazi Szell (Laurence Olivier), an ex-concentration camp dentist by profession. Szell has come to New York to retrieve the fortune in diamonds. Szell kidnaps Doc's brother, lone, idealistic Jewish graduate student Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman), who knows nothing about his brother's involvement.

In the most memorable torture scene, Szell uses his dental instruments for sadistic oral surgery to torture and extract information from Babe. Szell is the essence of evil and disturbingly effective during the torture, repeatedly asking Babe the question:  Is it safe?

Summary by Tim Dirks