... on the direction crew for Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Their chase through Chinatown in the episode screened in the UK last night was a straight lift from the haunting scene in Marathon Man where an elderly woman recognises Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier) and pursues him through the streets of New York's diamond quarter... To inform passers-by of his history, she yells out to all around her "der weisse Engel!"
Still sends chills down my spine, and as an effective scene for presenting a character with an horrific past history, I can't say as I blame the L&O team for applying it to their own narrative.
If nothing else, it's reminded Cloud and me that it's at least a few months since we last watched Marathon Man...
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