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Addison Powell, Carlin Glynn, Cliff Robertson

Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack continued their longtime collaboration (the actor and director have worked together on Jeremiah Johnson, The Way We Were, The Electric Horseman, ...( read more  read more... )and Out of Africa, among other films) with this taut spy drama. Redford plays a reader for U.S. intelligence who becomes a hunted man after he is not among the victims of a mass murder of his colleagues. Faye Dunaway does solid work as the frightened and mystified woman whom he forces to conceal him, and Max von Sydow is appropriately cool as a professional assassin. That same, sustained tone of danger and expectation that made Pollack's The Firm so much fun can be found in this 1975 thriller, albeit with an appropriate dose of post-Watergate paranoia. --Tom Keogh

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R, 117 min.

Directed by: Sydney Pollack

Release Date: September 19, 1975

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DVD Release Date: August 17, 1999

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  • DrZeek
    August 27, 2009
    DrZeek
    Joubert: Condor is an amateur. He's lost, unpredictable, perhaps even sentimental. He could fool a professional. Not deliberately, but precisely because he is lost, doesn't know what to do. Unlike Wicks, who has always been entirely predictable.

    A solid conspiracy thriller about...( read more) an analyst on the run. Well made, with solid performances from the whole cast. A good amount of tension fills a number of scenes, while some action and a small love story also manage to work their way into this film. Good entertainment.

    Robert Redford stars as Joe Turner, an analyst for the CIA, who's job is to read everything and write reports. On one particular day, while Turner is out to lunch, an assassination squad murders everyone in his New York office. Turner manages to avoid the same fate and heads on the run. He attempts to contact a higher up, namely Higgins, played by Cliff Robertson, only to be setup for an ambush. Luckily, Turner manages to get out of another sticky situation, but is forced to go rogue.

    Kathy: I don't think you'll live much longer.
    Joe Turner: I may surprise you.

    At this point, Turner kidnaps a stranger, Kathy, played by Faye Dunaway, whom he forces to help him stay hidden as Turner attempts to figure out what has gone wrong. So now, while a bit of Stockholm Syndrome may take place for Kathy, Turner is still being sought after by an icy cool assassin played by Max von Sydow.

    Its a 70s conspiracy thriller, directed by Sydney Pollack, so I wasn't exactly worried about if I'd like this movie. Its a lot of fun and replaces the possible action climaxes in many scenes that would be seen if this movie were to be made today (like the Bourne series, even though that series is rock solid) with a more appropriate release that may be some claustrophobic fight scenes or some simple cunning by one of the characters.

    Redford is really good here. He's comfortable on screen portraying a scared individual working like an analyst to try and understand what has gone wrong. Dunaway has to do a number of things to make her character to stick, including making one night with a possible fugitive (who happens to look like Robert Redford) turn into a love affair, and she does a good job. Von Sydow was just awesome throughout. And I liked the development of Robertson's character as well.

    The film slows down a bit towards the end, but it doesn't push the conspiracy angle into realms that are unnecessarily complicated, which kept the film working for me as a quality thriller.

    Joe Turner: Boy, what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
  • bradwest
    September 18, 2008
    bradwest
    Rock solid efforts from everyone. Again eerily fortells our current situation.
  • mjgildea
    November 23, 2006
    mjgildea
    I liked it but I didn't love it. Great supporting cast.
  • binky013
    November 21, 2006
    binky013
    This and The Parallax View are two of the best of the '70s' conspiracy-paranoia films. One of my favorite Redford performances. Cliff Robertson and Max von Sydow are excellent. All English majors should see this so they can be made aware of jobs they can pursue with the...( read more)ir degrees : )
  • ashleymh007
    May 24, 2009
    ashleymh007
    Good, but too slow.
  • jam233
    November 18, 2009
    jam233
    The exceptional first half of this thriller was followed by a rather routine and predictable second half. It is still an engrossing thriller. Very well edited. The romance between Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway hurts the film and was not needed in the least.
  • theloneowl
    November 6, 2009
    theloneowl
    Oh Robert.. quanto eri giovane pure qui <3
    Un po' lento, ma vista la trama ci sta anche.
  • Epicouros
    November 5, 2009
    Epicouros
    troubles in secret services and an innocent man , who works just in office , is suddenly
    the no 1 target ..
  • aniacel
    October 31, 2009
    aniacel
    Classic in good style and funny
  • ElCochran90
    September 18, 2009
    ElCochran90
    Sydney Pollack's smartest and most complicated crime films. A rare modern masterpiece full of suspense and brilliance.

    80/100

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October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Three Days of the Condor is a well-made thriller, tense and involving, and the scary thing, in these months after Watergate, is that it's all too believable. full review

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