“巨大な歴史の裏に潜んだ<悪夢>が追いかけて来る!”
ニューヨーク。老人が雑踏の中、銀行の貸金庫から出してきた小箱を男に手渡した直後、交通事故死した。この事故をマラソン・トレーニング中のベーブは目撃した。ベーブの兄ドクはアメリカ政府機関の男で例の箱を売り込もうとしたが常に命を狙われていた。一方、南米ウルグアイにいるナチの残党ゼルは、老人の事故死を知るやニューヨークへ飛ぶ。ある日ベーブは図書館でエルザと知り合うが公園でデート中２人の男に襲われる。
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製作費: $6,500,000 (10億円)
興行収入: $21,709,020 (33億円)
推定収支: $15,209,020 (23億円)
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監督: John Schlesinger
脚本: ウィリアム・ゴールドマン
音楽: Michael Small
制作: Sidney Beckerman / ロバート・エヴァンス
撮影監督: コンラッド・L・ホール
制作会社: Paramount Pictures
As a man who quite literally loathes the very idea of a dentist, let alone actually going to visit one - this film adds an extra dimension of ghastliness to the already fairly hideous underlying premiss. That centres around "Babe" (Dustin Hoffman). He is an ordinary history student who is horrified when his older brother is brutally murdered. Why? Well, he sets out to investigate and before long is embroiled in a nazi-hunting plot to track down "Szell" (Sir Laurence Olivier) who is, himself, trying to stay one step ahead of some government agents whilst he tries to track down an huge cache of diamonds. It turns out that this evil creature thought the now deceased brother knew the location of the gems, and of course that puts "Babe" in quite considerable peril and so soon, he is next on the interrogation list. This torture gives the idea of getting a drilling an whole new meaning, as the sound of the dental whirring does more than enough to compensate for the lack of actual visuals. Though the ending is fitting, I found it all just a bit too convenient, but Hoffman is superb here, as are Sir Laurence and an international cast that add depth to this really quite disturbing plot. Even now, when we are so much more used to graphic violence and gore on screen, this is potently gruesome and effective.
