Marathon Man (1976)

Marathon Man

Marathon Man, directed by John Schlesinger from William Goldman's adaptation of his own novel, was released by Paramount Pictures in October 1976. Dustin Hoffman plays Thomas "Babe" Levy, a Columbia graduate student and distance runner pulled into a diamond-smuggling conspiracy after the death of his brother Doc, played by Roy Scheider, and into the hands of the fugitive Nazi dentist Christian Szell, played by Laurence Olivier in the role that gave the film its notorious interrogation scene. (IMDb)

Watches

Rolex GMT-Master 1675

Worn by Dustin Hoffman as Thomas "Babe" Levy. The watch does real narrative work rather than sitting on a wrist. Babe receives the Rolex as a gift from his older brother, shows it off, and later, running for his life, hands it to a cab driver as the whole fare, asking only for a dime back so he can make a phone call. Montres de Luxe identifies it as a GMT-Master reference 1675 with a black bezel on a Jubilee bracelet, which is the configuration and the period the reference was in production. (Montres de Luxe) Rolex Magazine records the same trade independently, without naming the reference; Rolex later used the moment in a commercial. (Rolex Magazine) The transfer will not resolve a case-number-level cue, so the 1675 rests on the spotting identification rather than on a legible detail in frame.

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