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Marathon Man (1976)

There are parts of this that are incredible like the scene with the old woman in the street. Chilling and moving. Unfortunately the first half is slow and disjointed. There are a few different threads, like running a marathon, that are set up but I don’t feel like they ever “paid off” Frustrating plot holes. The long torture sequences are all for nothing?! Why torture him? Babe didn’t know anything? Szell didn’t get any information from him? Szell asks “Are they safe?” but he knows that they’re in his brothers bank deposit box?! Janeway gives away Szell’s location in the end… why? To what end?!