"Is it safe?"
Dustin Hoffman plays the role of a guy struggling with his past pretty well. In Marathon Man, he's got a lot of skeletons he's gotta deal with. As a history Ph.D. candidate, he runs to cope with his father's suicide, an act that took place after being investigated in the McCarthy era. His problems increase when he is entangled with secret government operations and a paranoid Nazi geezer played by Laurence Olivier. Olivier's performance was a particular success, being nominated for Best Supporting Actor and later landing at villain #34 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains" list. Stay for the dental torture scene-it's particularly nasty.
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