Marathon Man

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• The movie's line "Is it safe?" was voted as the #70 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
• On the last day of shooting, Laurence Olivier visited Dustin Hoffman at his home, bringing with him the Complete Works of William Shakespeare as a gift. He then proceeded to read scenes from several of the plays, much to Hoffman's delight. The actor credits the story about his conflict with Olivier to general malice on writer William Goldman's part, who didn't take kindly to the fact that Hoffman had persuaded director John Schlesinger to change the ending of Goldman's book.
• Movie Goof (revealing mistake): SPOILER: In one scene a man attacks Babe but Janeway saves him by stabbing that man in the back by a switchblade, but it turns out that the dead man is safe because the knife is fake. However, to make such a trick work, the knife has to slide straight and not to be folded as the knife in the film.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): When the father's body is shown after his suicide with the pistol, the hammer on the pistol is down. When one shoots a pistol, the hammer remains in the cocked position until the last round when the slide remains retracted.