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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Thriller /
Mystery /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Sydney Pollack
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Actors:
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Jess Osuna,
Tina Chen,
Michael Kane,
Walter McGinn,
Addison Powell,
Don McHenry,
Michael B. Miller,
Dino Narizzano,
Helen Stenborg,
Robert Redford,
Faye Dunaway,
Cliff Robertson,
Max von Sydow,
John Houseman,
Patrick Gorman
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Duration:
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117 min.
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Rating:
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(7.5/10)124.5
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Plot Summary:
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A mild mannered CIA researcher, paid to decipher books, returns from lunch to find all of his co-workers assassinated. "Condor" must find escape who did this and get in from the cold once the hitmen get him.
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Great Thriller
An edgy and exciting thriller which not only holds up with todays thrillers but is also quite prophetic. When the final curtain is pulled back there are clear parallels with todays political climate. I agree with a previous reviewer that Redford is slightly miscast, I would like to have seen an everyman like Elliott Gould, but the film doesn't suffer at all because of it.
There are many good things to mention in this film such as the tense lift scene and I'm sure other films have been influenced by some of its sequences. The fight scene at the house springs to mind and reminded me of the locker fight in Grosse Point Blanke and if you're a fan of the Bourne films then there will be plenty here you will recognise.
I highly recommend this, particularly if you're...
Excellent - a classic!
I can't believe that this is only now being released on DVD.
There is one minor flaw with this movie - Robert Redford (though excellent here) is somewhat miscast as the bookish intelligence worker at the heart of the convoluted (though never confusing) plot - lets face it, if you look like he does you would not be doing what he is doing to make a living!. If you enjoy a cracking, clever thriller, rent it - you won't be disappointed.
Three Days of the Condor
Conspiracy theories abounded in Hollywood in the 1970s, as sheet-makers began to review the polity's joyless underside in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate. Directed by way of Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, this keyed up thriller suffers in comparison with All the President's Men, in which Redford appeared the following year. But it is still a polished piece of contrive, as Redford holds photographer Faye Dunaway pledge while he tries to ascertain Max von Sydow's role in the wreck of his undercover colleagues. The excellent cast makes up as regards Pollack's occasional lapses in pacing.
Three Days of the Condor
Entertaining New York-based thriller which shamelessly follows most of the twists of The 39 Steps. It is just possible to watch its complexities, and the tete-…-tete is smart.
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