Is it safe?

One of the greatest films I've seen, with two of the greatest actors in history.

Just say 'YES'!!!

OK,so it's a little complicated,but basically Szell is a Nazi war criminal,in exile in Paraguay.The old guy who's killed in the car accident at the beginning of the film was Szell's brother,so Szell is forced to come out of hiding to claim his diamonds which he stored in a depositery at a NY bank. He was known as the "Weiss Angel" (White Angel) because of his thick head of white hair, so in a effort to disguise himself, he shaves his head before arriving in New York, but some of his (contd)

(contd) surviving victims now living in New York recognise him, and when one of them confronts him, Szell slashes his throat with a "cutter" he has strapped to his forearm, before escaping amidst the general pandemonium. Meanwhile, a professional spy/assasin called "Scila" is hot on Szell's trail. Babe's (Dustin Hoffman) brother, "Doc" comes to visit, and it tranpires that "Doc" and "Scila" are the same person, although Doc has no idea of his brother's true profession. Doc, Babe, and (contd)

(contd) Babe's girlfriend, Elsa go out to dinner, but when Doc publicly exposes Elsa as an imposter in front of Babe, the two brothers fall out, and Babe storms home alone. Doc/Scila meanwhile tracks down Szell, but when Doc/scila confronts him, Szell attacks him with his cutter, fatally injuring him. Doc manages to crawl back to Babe's apartment, bleeding to death, and tries to tell Babe something before he collapses and dies. A detective called Janeway arrives at Babe's apartment to (cont)

(contd) investigate Doc's murder, but this being a William Goldman story, nothing is so straightforward,and lo and behold, it transpires Janeway is actually a henchman of Szell's, who Szell has sent round to interrogate Babe about Szell's diamonds, Sezell being certain that Doc must have told Babe about them before he died. Janeway leaves without revealing his true identity, but that night, two more of Szell's henchmen are sent round to kidnap Babe so Szell can personally interrogate Babe (cont)

(Cont) and torture him for information, which leads us into the scene above (Whew!)

Last time I went to the dentist, it was a female, and as soon as I was in the chair, she whipped the drill out, so I said "Whoa, whoa, aren't you going to anaethathise me first?" and she said "Well, the nerve's dead, so you won't feel anything, but we can anaethatise you if you prefer" and I said "Well,yes, I WOULD prefer if you're going to stick a drill in my mouth!" I mean, Jeez!

you should have asked if it was safe

Really! In the 70's I had a dentist who would drill without freezing and when I asked why he stared blankly at me and said after a long pause, "Because you can take it." Twenty years later I found out he was much like our dentist friend in Marathon Man - a former nazi dentist. At that time there was a class action suit against him for pulling all kinds of weird shit.