Laurence Olivier as Dr. Christian Szell
Though his health was poor and, heaven knows, he didn’t need the money, the 20th century’s great classical actor just kept working throughout the 70s, ornamenting his Shakespearean resume with movie turns as Nazis and Nazi-hunters. This time he’s on Hitler’s side, playing an evil doctor who, in New York 30 years after the war, needs to extract a piece of information from an innocent grad student (Dustin Hoffman). Only one way to do that: painful dentistry. Olivier’s repeated question “Is it safe?”, posed as he places an instrument of torture in the strapped-down Hoffman’s mouth, became the decade’s catchphrase for pain.
EVIL CHARACTERS
- George Siegmann as Silas Lynch
- Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert
- Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West
- Joseph Cotten as Uncle Charlie
- Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson
- Ann Savage as Vera
- Marcel Herrand as Lacenaire
- Lionel Barrymore as Henry F. Potter
- Denis Price as Louis Mazzini
- James Cagney as Cody Jarrett
- Toshiro Mifune as Tajomaru
- Prithviraj as Justice Raghunat
- Carl Boehm as Mark Lewis
- Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Iselin
- Robert Mitchum as Max Cady
- Henry Fonda as Frank
- Klaus Kinski as de Aguirre
- Laurence Olivier as Dr. Christian Szell
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman
- Anthony Wong as Wong Chi-hang
- Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth
- Ving Rhames as Marsellus Wallace
- Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter
- Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine
