Monday, August 5, 2013

Marathon Man (1976, Dir. John Schlesinger)


FILM: Marathon Man
YEAR: 1976
DIRECTOR: John Schlesinger
PINBALL MODEL(S): Polo (Gottleib, 1970)
GAME LOCATION: Cafe/Bar
NOTES:  In this scene, we see one of Dr. Szell's assassins playing a pin while spying on a meeting between Doc and Agent Janeway.

Through a series of successive cuts, we are shown that the pin-table provides a direct line-of-sight across the busy Manhattan street to the French cafe in which the meeting occurs.