Marc Lawrence

Actor Marc Lawrence died of heart failure in Palm Springs, about 160 km east of Los Angeles, on Nov. 27. He was 95.
The Brooklyn-born (as Max Goldsmith) rough-looking actor, who once described himself as “pock-marked and oily-skinned,” appeared in more than 100 films from the early 1930s to the beginning of the 21st century, generally playing vicious outlaws.
Having begun his acting career with Eva Le Gallienne’s repertory company, Lawrence moved to Los Angeles in 1932 and started playing small parts in films. Four years later, he landed a contract at Harry Cohn’s Columbia Pictures.
Among his dozens of films during that period are Final Hour (1936); Criminals of the Air (1937), with a very young Rita Hayworth (with whom Lawrence claimed [...]

by Andre Soares | December 9, 2005   
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MARATHON MAN – Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier

Marathon Man (1976)
Direction: John Schlesinger
Screenplay: William Goldman, from Goldman’s novel
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Richard Bright, Marc Lawrence
 

 
The worst sin a good-guy-vs.-bad-guy movie can commit is to — unintentionally — have us root for the evildoer. That is exactly what screenwriter William Goldman (adapting his own novel, reportedly with some help from Robert Towne) and director John Schlesinger, he of Darling, Midnight Cowboy, and Sunday, Bloody Sunday, achieve in the thrill-less "thriller" Marathon Man. Adding insult to injury, the villain I came to root for was a horrific Nazi war criminal, while the hero that bored me to tears was a pacifist Jew.
Now, how could anyone manage to [...]

by Andre Soares | December 5, 2004   
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