Marathon Man (1976)
R
Thriller 2 hrs. 5 min.
Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider
Avg. Rating 4.6
Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the US government and escaped Nazi war criminal Szell (Laurence Olivier). Believing that Doc has stolen a valuable cache of gems, Szell emerges from his South American hiding place and heads for New York. He has Doc killed, then kidnaps Doc's in-the-dark brother Babe (Dustin Hoffman). Repeating the phrase ... Read moreDoc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the US government and escaped Nazi war criminal Szell (Laurence Olivier). Believing that Doc has stolen a valuable cache of gems, Szell emerges from his South American hiding place and heads for New York. He has Doc killed, then kidnaps Doc's in-the-dark brother Babe (Dustin Hoffman). Repeating the phrase "Is it safe?" over and over, Szell, a onetime concentration camp dentist, tries to extract information from Babe by performing sadistic "oral surgery" upon him.
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Even though this movie is not scarey per se, when that dentist has Dustin in the chair pulling his teeth and saying is it safe ?
I could almost put myself in that situation unable to do anything with no knowledge of what he was talking about.
I did decide watching that though if I was ever in a situation like that and escaped from it, I would hunt that dentist down and cut him up with a chain saw.
KOD