| Record Number |
853129 |
| Title |
Marathon man [videorecording]. |
| Publisher/Date |
Australia : Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia, [2019] |
| Pagination etc. |
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Contents note |
Originally produced as motion picture in 1976. |
| Creation Note |
Produced by Robert Evans and Sidney Beckerman ; directed by John Schlesinger. |
| Performer note |
Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Marthe Keller, Roy Scheider and William Devane. |
| Summary Note |
Dustin Hoffman plays the likeable graduate student and marathon runner of the title, unwillingly trapped in a killing game of intrigue involving a Nazi fugitive, Christian Szell. Laurence Olivier received an Academy Award nomination for his chilling portrayal of the sadistic Szell, who turns dental instruments into tools of torture with dispassionate ease. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification: M. |
| Language note |
In English, Italian, French, Spanish. Subtitles in English, Croatian, French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, European Portuguese, Slovenian, Castilian Spanish. |
| Subject - Name |
Goldman, William, -- 1931-2018. -- Marathon man -- Film adaptations |
| Subject |
Marathon running -- Drama |
| Graduate students -- Drama |
| Fugitives from justice -- Drama |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Thrillers (Motion pictures). |
| Feature films. |
| Fiction films. |
| Added Author |
Schlesinger, John, 1926-2003 director. |
| Hoffman, Dustin, 1937- actor. |
| Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989 actor. |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F MARA |
