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Marathon Man (1976)

Directed by John Schlesinger · Cinematography by Conrad Hall

R125 min62 frames

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One man's dangerous attempts to clear his father's name

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What is Marathon Man about?

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

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.

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What does the cinematography of Marathon Man look like?

Sampled across 62 frames, the coverage of Marathon Man leans on wide compositions (35% of the sample) and medium shots (32%). Cinematographer Conrad Hall keeps 50% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 42% of the frames. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. The production design places the film in the 1970s.

What is the color palette of Marathon Man?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Marathon Man (1976) are #312f2e, #55534f, #d4d1cc, #111010, #737370, #8f8f8b — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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