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Three Days of the Condor

  • 1975
  • R
  • 1h 57m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway in Three Days of the Condor (1975)
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A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

  • Director
    • Sydney Pollack
  • Writers
    • James Grady
    • Lorenzo Semple Jr.
    • David Rayfiel
  • Stars
    • Robert Redford
    • Faye Dunaway
    • Cliff Robertson
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    67K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    4,514
    1,245
    • Director
      • Sydney Pollack
    • Writers
      • James Grady
      • Lorenzo Semple Jr.
      • David Rayfiel
    • Stars
      • Robert Redford
      • Faye Dunaway
      • Cliff Robertson
    • 266User reviews
    • 140Critic reviews
    • 63Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 6 wins & 4 nominations total

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    Robert Redford
    Robert Redford
    • Turner
    Faye Dunaway
    Faye Dunaway
    • Kathy
    Cliff Robertson
    Cliff Robertson
    • Higgins
    Max von Sydow
    Max von Sydow
    • Joubert
    • (as Max Von Sydow)
    John Houseman
    John Houseman
    • Mr. Wabash
    Addison Powell
    Addison Powell
    • Atwood
    Walter McGinn
    Walter McGinn
    • Barber
    Tina Chen
    Tina Chen
    • Janice
    Michael Kane
    Michael Kane
    • Wicks
    Don McHenry
    • Dr. Lappe
    Michael Miller
    • Fowler
    Jess Osuna
    Jess Osuna
    • The Major
    Dino Narizzano
    • Harold
    Helen Stenborg
    Helen Stenborg
    • Mrs. Russell
    • (as Helen Stenbure)
    Patrick Gorman
    Patrick Gorman
    • Martin
    Hansford Rowe
    Hansford Rowe
    • Jennings
    • (as Hansford H. Rowe Jr., Hansford Rolle)
    Carlin Glynn
    Carlin Glynn
    • Mae Barber
    • (as Carlin Gylnn)
    Hank Garrett
    Hank Garrett
    • Mailman
    • Director
      • Sydney Pollack
    • Writers
      • James Grady
      • Lorenzo Semple Jr.
      • David Rayfiel
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    9mjanssens26

    Excellent and holds up 45 years later in 2020

    Though this movie is 45 years old, the movie still holds up today and just shows that our governments are still fighting over the same things that they were in the mid-70s. Timeless. Beautiful transfer. Brilliant thriller and very fast paced. Catch it on Amazon Prime streaming
    7secondtake

    Simmer against the machine...at the beginnings of a new kind of CIA genre

    Three Days of the Condor (1975)

    This is looking more and more like a period piece, dated and curious like one of those great Cold War films looks today (Failsafe or Seven Days in May). And yet it also feels like the beginnings of spy/counterspy films that are going on today, way beyond the pizazz of the early Bond films of the 1960s, and presaging the dozens since, including recent ones like the Bourne films or Syriana. It plays straight up as a suspense film, one where an almost innocent man is caught up in something huge and perplexing and awful, and we all identify with the individual against the powers of evil. Robert Redford plays the role of Joe Turner well, with the usual Redford stiffness, but believably--he reads books, after all--and sympathetically.

    Putting yourself back to 1975 you have to remember that everyone was talking about, and reacting to, Watergate, and a U.S. president who had to resign from office because of it. Watergate, more than anything, started the current public roar (blossoming on the internet) about government conspiracy. Three Days of the Condor makes the government, and the CIA in particular, an almost unassailable and invisible force of spying and mistrust. Turner, by circumstance at first and then by admirable determination, fights back. He's clever as much as he is worried. He falls in love. He feels isolated but never gives up. He has close calls, and lucky escapes, and unlikely friends. He thinks of other people first.

    In other words, he's a hero against the machine, and if the movie is sometimes slow, it creates a nice pace for the end, which is beautifully thought out. Director Sydney Pollack is hampered by a screenplay that alternates between awkward (Faye Dunaway's scenes) and brilliant (Redford's anti-spy character has a conversation with a hit man played by Max Von Sydow that shines), but he patches it together with an editing job that was nominated for an Oscar. And the cinematography by Owen Roizman is really nice (he shot a dozen great films from the French Connection to the Exorcist to Network). Condor is not just an entertainment, which is a saving grace, but it does also, slowly and beautifully, entertain.
    8valleyjohn

    Another great Pollack / Redford Collaboration

    I really liked this film . From the storyline , to the acting , to the wonderful looking 1970's New York setting . It's a another Robert Redford/Sydney Pollack collaboration that stands the test of time .

    Redford plays a a mild mannered CIA researcher, paid to read books, returns from lunch to find all of his co-workers assassinated. "Condor" must find out who did this and get in from the cold before the hitmen get him.

    I'm really surprised that this film haven't been remade . In a time when Hollywood has very little imagination and remakes any old rubbish, this would be perfect for modern version.

    Redford is really good . In fact the whole cast are professional and are on their games . Max Von Sydow does what he does best as the mysterious foreigner. Faye Dunaway is gorgeous and the on screen chemistry with Redford is obvious.

    The setting is what I really love about this film . New York in the 1970's was a dirty , seedy place and films set then are like a historical memory of that . Three are lots of scenes with the twin towers , inside and out and that is always poignant to see but one amazing fact is that Cliff Robertson, who played Higgins, who is a keen aviator, and was flying a private Beechcraft Baron over New York City on the morning of September 11, 2001. He was directly above the World Trade Center, climbing through 7,500 feet when the first Boeing 767 struck. Air traffic control instructed him to land immediately at the nearest airport, after a nationwide order to ground all civilian and commercial aircraft following the attacks.

    Amazing.
    8perfectbond

    Terrific tension

    This film was very effective in maintaining the tension not only of the Condor's life and death mission to discover the reasons for the massacre of his colleagues but also the relationship between him and Kathy. The cast is uniformly good though Redford obviously carries the film. Von Sydow is again great as the strictly professional assassin. The entire film had an aura of authenticity that had me entirely engrossed. Recommended, 8/10.
    7garywoodburn

    2 hours of the condor

    Towards the end of this film - two of the main protagonists engage in a conversation that is so telling - it could have been written yesterday and not thirty years ago.

    The West has long looked to the east and its oil fields as potential targets and this film just reinforces the fact that what we think of as a new war has in fact been a raging cold war for decades. It is not and never has been about freedom –it is now and always has been a war of economic necessity. Although this film is not as renowned as many of the other paranoid spy thrillers of the 70's such as the Conversation or the Parallax View it is still a very watchable and intriguing film.

    Redford is well cast as a fish out of water having to adapt his talents from the page to real life. The central relationship between Dunaway and Redford doesn't work as well as it should. She is too keen to fall for his charms and were it not Redford but a more charmless man like Hackman for example I doubt it would have worked at all.

    The film is not as complex as has suggested. It is neat and easy enough to follow. It has a beguiling character that is better for my money than harder hitting films like Parallax. Redfords fight in the middle of the film is copied in a many ways by the new Bourne movie fight scenes. Indeed the double talk spy will appeal to fans of this genre. Bourne today is the nearest thing to Condor in the movies.

    And Von Sydow is as always untouchable. Worth a remake but I still have a very dear place in my big movie heart for well made 70s films like this.

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    Related interests

    Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in All the President's Men (1976)
    Political Thriller
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Former CIA director Richard Helms acted as a personal consultant to Robert Redford for his role as the Condor.
    • Goofs
      Any ballistics analysis of the shootings in the alley would show that Sam was not shot by the "assailant" (Turner) who shot the CIA assassin.

      However, ballistics analysis is irrelevant because the event is covered up rather than investigated.
    • Quotes

      Joe Turner: I'd like to go back to New York.

      Joubert: You have not much future there. It will happen this way. You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift.

    • Connections
      Featured in Flicks: Episode #1.17 (1975)
    • Soundtracks
      I've Got You Where I Want You
      (uncredited)

      Music by Dave Grusin

      Lyrics by Tom Bähler

      Performed by James Gilstrap

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 25, 1975 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Los tres días del cóndor
    • Filming locations
      • 55 East 77th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(American Literary Historical Society)
    • Production companies
      • Wildwood Enterprises
      • Dino De Laurentiis Company
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    • Budget
      • $20,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $27,476,252
    • Gross worldwide
      • $27,476,837
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 57m(117 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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