Review of Three Days of the Condor (1975) by Michael T — 11 Jan 2010
A bit of post-Watergate 1970s era paranoia in which actor Robert Redford and director Sydney Pollack collaborated again to create a pretty solid film. Redford plays a reader for the CIA (most of what the CIA does is intelligence gathering) and happens to have slipped out a seldom used back entranceway to pick up lunch for his colleagues when assasin's wipe them out.
Why? Evidence seems to point to an inside job within the U.S. Intelligence community and Redford doesn't know who to trust. Max Von Sydow plays a master assasin who enjoys collecting toy soldiers and Faye Dunaway is the woman that Redford takes hostage when he is trying to avoid arrest (the NYPD want him in questioning for a murder and the FBI have been told that he is likely a traitor) or assasination by the real traitor.
Dunaway eventually falls for the fugitive Redford. The performances are good and the tension remains high as Redford slowly unravels the conspiracy.
This review of Three Days of the Condor (1975) was written by Michael T on 11 Jan 2010.
Three Days of the Condor has generally received positive reviews.
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