Three Days of the Condor

9/24/19751h 57m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him. ~

Overview:

When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.

Director:

Sydney Pollack

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$7,800,000.00

Revenue:

$41,509,797.00

Key words:

central intelligence agency (cia)
office
conspiracy
condor
christmas
political thriller
frightened

Cast

Robert Redford

~ as ~

Joseph Turner

Faye Dunaway

~ as ~

Kathy Hale

Cliff Robertson

~ as ~

J. Higgins

Max von Sydow

~ as ~

G. Joubert

John Houseman

~ as ~

Mr. Wabash

Addison Powell

~ as ~

Leonard Atwood

Walter McGinn

~ as ~

Sam Barber

Tina Chen

~ as ~

Janice Chon

John Randolph Jones

~ as ~

Beefy Man

Michael Kane

~ as ~

S.W. Wicks

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Reviews (2)

GenerationofSwine
Written 2 year(s) ago
10
Mission Impossible, the movie, kind of ripped this off didn't it? Right down to the phone booth scene. Of course the ending was different.

Yeah, anyway, I first caught this one on AMC on a rainy day with my mom back in the 90s. One of those flicking through the channels and nothing is on kind of days, and looking out the window and you can't really go outside and then..."Oh you'll like this."

And the 13 year old me thought it was the coolest most paranoid thing that I'd ever seen. And, now the 40 year old me thinks it's the coolest and most paranoid thing that I've ever seen.

Paranoid is really the only way to describe it. And the paranoia is doubled with Redford's character who is a spook, but not the James Bond kind. He's more the every day low level paper pusher kind of spook, not the kiss kiss bang bang spook. He's not sure what he's doing, he's never been in this situation before and you can feel his stress from start to finish.

And, for those of you that read the book (also as good) this is spawned departments in both the KGB and then later the CIA that were simply based on Redford's job made up by the author. It literally didn't exist before the film.

This is really the perfect spy movie. Everything that came before it and everything that followed it seem like a hollow shell in the genre.
JPV852
Written 11 month(s) ago
8
Still a well done spy thriller with Robert Redford doing a great job, though the romance between him and Faye Dunaway was... weird. Sure it's dated with the technology but like The Conversation, the storyline still is relevant. 4.25/5