---
title: 'Marathon Man (1976)'
type: 'film'
director: 'John Schlesinger'
released: '1976-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 123
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Action'
  - 'Crime'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/marathon-man-1976'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074860/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Marathon Man (1976)

1976 · R · 123 min · Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller · United States


## Synopsis

Marathon Man is a 1976 American suspense thriller film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by William Goldman from his 1974 novel of the same title. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane and Marthe Keller. The film is about "Babe" Levy (Hoffman), a Columbia University graduate student and distance runner who becomes unwittingly embroiled through his brother in a plot by Nazi war criminal Christian Szell (Olivier) to retrieve ill-gotten diamonds from a safe deposit box owned by Szell's dead brother.

## Credits

- **Director:** [John Schlesinger](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-schlesinger)
- **Screenplay:** [William Goldman](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-goldman), [Robert Towne](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-towne)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Michael Small](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-small)
- **Producer:** [Robert Evans](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-evans), [Sidney Beckerman](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-beckerman-2)
- **Editor:** [Jim Clark](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-clark)

## Cast

- [Marthe Keller](https://cinepixo.com/people/marthe-keller)
- [William Devane](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-devane)
- [Laurence Olivier](https://cinepixo.com/people/laurence-olivier)
- [Jacques Marin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-marin)
- [Alma Beltran](https://cinepixo.com/people/alma-beltran)
- [Lotte Palfi-Andor](https://cinepixo.com/people/lotte-palfi-andor)
- [Fritz Weaver](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-weaver)
- [Dustin Hoffman](https://cinepixo.com/people/dustin-hoffman)
- [Marc Lawrence](https://cinepixo.com/people/marc-lawrence)
- [Ben Dova](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-dova)
- [Treat Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/treat-williams)
- [Richard Bright](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-bright)
- [Tom Ellis](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-ellis)
- [Roy Scheider](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-scheider)
- [Raymond Serra](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-serra)

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