Three Days of the Condor

Director: Sydney Pollack

1975 / 117min / 35mm

Joe Turner (Robert Redford), a quiet, bookish CIA codebreaker, returns to his clandestine field office one day to find his co-workers murdered. Discovering that somebody out there is desperate to see him discredited or dead, a scrambling Turner must keep ahead of enemies in his own agency and Max von Sydow’s merciless hitman to stay alive long enough to learn who, if anyone, he can trust. “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.”—The New York Times

“Filled with stories of espionage and intrigue, films from the 1970s are among my favorites as they usually have a heavy, gritty feel to them, reflecting the turbulent politics of that decade. Three Days of the Condor, a timeless tale starring two of the most glamorous actors of that period, Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway, both at the height of their careers, is one I never tire of watching.”—Victoria Ashley, Metrograph Events team

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