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Three Days of the Condor (1975)

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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 37
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 5

This post-Watergate thriller captures the paranoid tenor of the times, thanks to Syndey Pollock's taut direction and excellent performances from Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway.

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This post-Watergate thriller captures the paranoid tenor of the times, thanks to Syndey Pollock's taut direction and excellent performances from Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway.

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"His code name is Condor. In the next 24 hours, everyone he trusts will try to kill him." As the ads ominously announced, a low-level spook confronts the unfathomable in Sydney Pollack's 1975 political thriller, adapted from the James Grady novel Six Days of the Condor. CIA researcher Joe Turner (Robert Redford) returns from lunch to find the entire staff of his small New York office assassinated. When he meets his boss (Cliff Robertson) at another location to tell him what happened, someone

R, 2 hr.

Drama, Romance, Mystery & Suspense, Classics

Directed By: Sydney Pollack

Written By: James Grady, Lorenzo Semple Jr.

In Theaters: Jan 1, 1975 Wide

On DVD: Aug 17, 1999

Paramount Home Video

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Cast

Robert Redford
Joe Turner
Faye Dunaway
Kathy Hale
Cliff Robertson
Higgins
Max von Sydow
Joubert
John Houseman
Wabash
Carlin Glynn
Mae Barber
Addison Powell
Atwood
Mike Kane
Wicks
Walter McGinn
Sam Barber
Tina Chen
Janice
John P. Connell
TV Reporter
Ed Crowley
Ordinance Man
Jay Devlin
Tall Thin Man
Dorothi Fox
Nurse
Arthur French
Messenger
Hank Garrett
Mailman
Carol Gustafson
Landlady
Ernest Harden Jr.
Teenager
John Randolph Jones
Beefy Man
James Keane
Store Clerk
Don McHenry
Dr.Lappe
Dino Narizzano
Harold
Myron Natwick
Civilian
Jess Osuna
The Major
Robert Phalen
Newberry
Michael Prince
Civilian
Hansford Rowe
Jennings
Ed Setrakian
Customer
Helen Stenborg
Mrs. Russell
Marian Swan
Nurse
Patrick Gorman
Martin
Lee Steele
Heidegger
Norman Bush
Police Lieutenant
Robert Dahdah
Santa Claus
Michael B. Miller
Fowler
David Allen
Kid
Michael Kane

Critic Reviews for Three Days of the Condor

All Critics (39) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (36) | Rotten (6) | DVD (20)

Basically a B, it has been elevated in form -- but not in substance -- via four bigger names, location shooting and more production values. Sometimes the trick works, but not here.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety

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Variety

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Basically, the film is a throwback to the 60s anti-Bond spy thriller (a la The Ipcress File), except here the genre's annihilating irony has been replaced by Pollack's liberal piousness.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

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.

October 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

At its best moments, Three Days of the Condor creates without effort or editorializing that sense of isolation -- that far remove from reality -- within which super-government agencies can operate with such heedless immunity.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

Top Critic

A careful work of adjustment and prophecy

April 19, 2010 Full Review Source: CinePassion

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

remains entertaining and continues to hold up over the years

March 4, 2010 Full Review Source: Old School Reviews

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John A. Nesbit

Old School Reviews Source: Old School Reviews

If the story had stuck to its guns as a political thriller, it would have been fantastic. However, the sideline story of a codependent lover made things screech to a halt.

January 9, 2010 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures

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Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

Has a dose of camp that might not have been intended 30 years ago

July 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Habit

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Marty Mapes

Movie Habit

It's easy to see how and why Condor inspired so many of the conspiracy thrillers that came after it.

June 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com

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Jeff Giles

Bullz-Eye.com

The only extra on the disc is the movie trailer.

June 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

Makes you wish the makers - and especially the funders - of today's overblown big budget thrillers could be made to learn from some of the finer thrillers of the 1970s.

June 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

for complete nonsense, it's really quite entertaining

June 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Chris Cabin

Filmcritic.com

Pollack excels by establishing an interesting situation, sustaining it, and--in keeping with the paranoid-thriller genre--resolving it on a pleasingly ambiguous note. [Blu-ray]

May 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews

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Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews Source: Groucho Reviews

Pollack did nothing new in Condor, but he did fashion a taut thriller that if anything may seem trite these days from imitation and overuse. (Blu-ray Edition)

May 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

The film still makes a dandy suspense yarn, with plenty of twists and turns.

May 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

It's got the mystery aspect down beautifully, but because I wasn't given a chance to get behind the characters and get to know them, I had a hard time getting into the film itself.

May 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Views

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Ryan Cracknell

Movie Views Source: Movie Views

...an efficient exercise in Watergate-era paranoia.

June 5, 2008 Full Review Source: LarsenOnFilm

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Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

Exciting but frequently incomprehensible.

May 26, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

At its best this spy thriller is tense, engaging and good fodder for paranoids with conspiracy theory fever.

January 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

This taut espionage thriller gained greater plausibility during its shooting when a sudden raft of sensational post-Watergate news items began coming out of Washington regarding illegal wiretaps, surveillance, and killings motivated by [politics].

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Audience Reviews for Three Days of the Condor

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Thrilling but campy spy film based on the 1974 spy novel Six Days of the Condor is full of action and suspense, but it's no James Bond. It stars Robert Redford as Joe Turner, codename "Condor", a CIA researcher who returns from lunch to the building in which he works, only to find that every one of his

November 12, 2011

Alexander Diminiano

Super Reviewer

A great cast, and a pretty good story, but it could have been a lot better with some more excitement added in.

September 5, 2010

AJ Verser

Super Reviewer

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