Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier
Director: John Schlesinger
Marathon Man is what I'm going to term a Buffalo film - the sort of movie where every part of it gets used. No element is introduced and forgotten. This can feel satisfying or manipulative - I tend towards manipulative, because it increases the amount of artifice. While every part here gets used, I'm not sure every part is necessary. That said, Marathon Man features at least three excellent setpieces, strong visual work, and solid plotting. Maybe I'm jaded, but they just don't do paranoia like they did in the 1970s.
William Devane plays a creepy guy in this - I don't know how, between this and Family Plot, he didn't get more work as a go-to slimeball. Maybe William Atherton kept beating him out for parts in the 1980s.
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