History Film / MarathonMan

** [[spoiler:"I'll let keep as many as you can swallow."]]

* DepravedDentist: One of the most [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel famous examples]].

* CompleteMonster: Szell again.

* FridgeLogic: Why does Szell [[spoiler:go to a New York diamond market in person to do business when he could send a lackey or do business by phone?]]
** Is it safe? Is it safe? Szell is too paranoid to do this. [[spoiler:As Babe mentions in the film's (and I think the book's) ending, all of the trouble came because the Nazi was afraid that he would be robbed by anyone he worked with. The book has a few excerpts of his thought process, obsessing over his safety.]]
** [[JustEatGilligan ''CALL THE POLICE!!'']]
*** What are the police going to do when [[spoiler:the people after Babe are working for a rather shadowy branch of the government]]?
* HoYay: Henry and Janeway. (It's more explicit in the novel.)

A very surrealistic sequel, ''Brothers'', was published several years later.

A sequel, ''Brothers'', was published several years later.

* YouWouldntShootMe You Wouldn't Shoot Me]]: [[spoiler: Szell says this to Babe when the latter refuses to pull the trigger. Babe responds by chucking what's left of the diamond stash into the reservoir.]]

* [[{{Ptitleg0672b4j}} You Wouldn't Shoot Me]]: [[spoiler: Szell says this to Babe when the latter refuses to pull the trigger. Babe responds by chucking what's left of the diamond stash into the reservoir.]]

* AdaptationDecay: Arguably. William Goldman wrote most of the script, but several cuts were made and the ending was changed, which in his view weakened the story.

* YouWouldntShootMe: [[spoiler: Szell says this to Babe when the latter refuses to pull the trigger. Babe responds by chucking what's left of the diamond stash into the reservoir.]]

* AdaptationDisplacement

* CompleteMonster: Christian Szell of course.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The torture sequence. It takes every fear people have of going to the dentist and ''amps it up to Eleven'' on the nightmare dial.

* MemeticMutation: Is it safe?

* ChaoticNeutral: Melendez, the burglar Babe lets ransack his place in exchange for helping him with Szell's men.

** [[JustEatGilligan '''CALL THE POLICE!!''']]

* FridgeLogic: Why does Szell [[spoiler:go to a New York diamond market in person to do business when he could send a lackey or do business by phone?]]

* ChaoticNeutral: Melendez, the burglar Babe let's ransack his place in exchange for helping him with Szell's men.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: One of Szell's henchman turns his head terrified when Szell tortures Babe with his dental instruments.

A 1974 WilliamGoldman novel and 1976 film. DustinHoffman plays Thomas "Babe" Levy, a history graduate student and aspiring marathon runner. Babe seeks to follow in the footsteps of his father, a historian who committed suicide after being unjustly targeted by Joseph [=McCarthy=]. He receives a visit from his brother Henry, who, unbeknownst to Babe, is a government agent assigned to manage the fugitive Nazi Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier). Babe soon becomes entangled in events, and must fight to save himself from Szell and his allies.

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* DepravedDentist: One of the most famous examples.

*OneHundredScariestMovieMoments: Number 65