Three Days of the Condor

Director: Sydney Pollack Sydney Pollack

Overview

In this thriller, Turner is a New York-based CIA employee. Sent to pick up lunch, Turner returns to discover that everyone in his tiny office has been murdered. When an attempt is made on his life, he finds himself on the run from both the CIA and the police.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/26/2017
UPC:	0032429283276
Original Release:	1975
Rating:	R
Source:	PARAMOUNT
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:57:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Robert Redford	Joe Turner
Faye Dunaway	Kathy
Cliff Robertson	Higgins
Max von Sydow	Joubert
John Houseman	Monsieur Wabash
Walter McGinn	Barber
Addison Powell	Atwood
Michael Kane	Wicks
Tina Chen	Atwood
Don McHenry	Dr. Lappe
Michael Miller	Fowler
Jess Osuna	Mitchell
Dino Narizzano	Thomas
Helen Stenborg	Mrs. Russell
Patrick Gorman	Martin
Hansford Rowe	Jennings
Carlin Glynn	Mae Barber
Hank Garrett	Mailman
Arthur French	Messenger
Jay Devlin	Tall Thin Man
Frank Savino	Jimmy
Robert Phalen	Newberry
John Randolph Jones	Beefy Man
Garrison Phillips	Hutton
Lee Steele	Heidegger
Ed Crowley	Ordinance Man
John P. Connell	TV Reporter
John Connell	TV Reporter
Norman Bush	Alice Lieutenant
James Keane	Store Clerk
Ed Setrakian	Customer
Myron Natwick	Civilian
Michael Prince	Civilian
Carol Gustafson	Landlady
Sal Schillizi	Locksmith
David Bowman	Telephone Worker
Eileen Gordon	CIA Receptionist
Robert Dahdah	Santa Claus
Steve Bonino	Kid
Jennifer Rose	Kid
David Allen	Kid
Glenn Ferguson	Kid
Paul Dwyer	Kid
Marian Swan	Nurse
Dorothi Fox	Nurse
Ernest Harden Jr.	Teenager
Harmon Williams	CIA Agent
Dave Grusin	Composer

Technical Credits

Lorenzo Semple Jr.

David Rayfiel

Sydney Pollack	Director
Dino DeLaurentiis	Executive Producer
Augie Lohman	Special Effects
Stanley Schneider	Producer
Lorenzo Semple Jr.	Screenwriter
David Rayfiel	Screenwriter
Arthur Piantadosi	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

One of the most memorable paranoid thrillers of the 1970s, Sydney Pollack's Three Days of the Condor never loses its focus as a tense, compelling exercise in suspense. The plot rests on the premise that everyone with power is corrupt; Pollack and writers Lorenzo Semple, Jr. and David Rayfiel keep the proceedings from devolving into the preposterous or unconvincing. True to form, Robert Redford represents the powerless, non-corrupt masses as the film's bookish CIA researcher Turner. Unlike some of the bleaker examples of the genre (1974's The Parallax View), Redford's character ultimately outwits the system and finds a way to fight the corruption, much as he would the following year in All the President's Men. Redford's charisma smoothes over some of Condor's less-believable moments, and Sydney Pollack directs in the distinctively gloomy but lively style common to 1970s films. This was the fourth film on which the director and star teamed up; they would continue to work together on movies such as 1985's Out of Africa and 1990's Havana.