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In an Oscar nominateed role that must have kept many from a visit to the dentist for a while, Lawrence Olivier plays a sadistic Nazi searching for a bunch of diamonds in New York City. Dustin Hoffman co-stars as a graduate student. Roy Scheider is his brother who works for a super secret U.S. government spy agency. Hoffman gets involved in the plot because of the Nazi's belief that he knows the diamonds' whereabouts. William Devane also has a suppoerting role. Naturally there is a gorgeous female along the way.William Goldman wrotwe the screen play based on his novel. The plot takes a long while to settle in and for the first half of the film we are shown a bunch of characters with no seeming relation to each other. Not as thrilling the second or third time around except for the dental scenes, which are horrific.
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My teeth hurt just thinkin' bout those scenes.....
released the year before Marathon Man. Great movie.
Pelham one of the best triller of all times. Robert Shaw at his best.
trifecta of excellent suspense films of that era. Warren Beatty is in his prime, which was pretty damn good.
McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Bonnie and Clyde, and Shampoo round out his resume.
Geez, Julie and Goldie at the same point in time. Lucky bastard...
I thought that one was very confusing but I haven't seen it in a long time. Thanks, regards, rico
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Schieder and DeVane shined as "gay" tennis partners. Marthe Keller was certainly a knock out then. Most intriguing is the fatherly way Sir Larry got Hoffman to open his mouth in the chair.
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the time actually to create fully-formed characters. No, it doesn't have a neurotically speeded up, obsessive pace...but it moves along as the plot necessitates. The feeling of menace---the Asian fellow in the curtain, for instance---is marvelous. And the scene in the Jewish neighborhood, and, and, and...
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