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Scott and Brando, in only film together, fuel peacetime thriller about secret Nazi formula
February 22, 2012
By Jimmy Gillman
Formula, The
MGM; 1980; 117 minutes; R, for violence, nudity, adult situations and language; Directed by John G. Avildsen; Starring: George C. Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller, John Gielgud, G.D. Spradlin, Beatrice Straight, Richard Lynch and John Van Dreelen; Screenwriter(s): Steve Shagan
This underrated peacetime thriller based on Steve Shagan's best selling novel uses the oil industry's checkered history and its devotion to profits over people as the basis for a clever and believable story about a secret Nazi formula that falls into Allied hands at the close of the Second World War.
