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Staring:
Robert Redford,
Faye Dunaway,
Cliff Robertson,
Max von Sydow,
John Houseman
Director:
Sydney Pollack
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $5.33
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: REDFORD,ROBERT
EAN: 9780792156284
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792156285
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1999-08-17
Running Time: 117
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1975 |
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Product Description
A CIA agent returns from lunch to discover his entire office staff murdered, and must go into hiding to avoid his own murder by agents within the agency.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 28-MAR-2006
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video
Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack continued their longtime collaboration (the actor and director have worked together on Jeremiah Johnson, The Way We Were, The Electric Horseman, and Out of Africa, among other films) with this taut spy drama. Redford plays a reader for U.S. intelligence who becomes a hunted man after he is not among the victims of a mass murder of his colleagues. Faye Dunaway does solid work as the frightened and mystified woman whom he forces to conceal him, and Max von Sydow is appropriately cool as a professional assassin. That same, sustained tone of danger and expectation that made Pollack's The Firm so much fun can be found in this 1975 thriller, albeit with an appropriate dose of post-Watergate paranoia. --Tom Keogh
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excellent spy movie, 2010-01-08
This movie reminds me of the movie "A Beautiful Mind" and a dozen other movies which tantalize the imagination with "big brother' themes. From mathematicians who believe the entire universe can be described using the magic of numbers to religious adherents who see ancient encrypted codes governing the secrets of mankind "Three days of the Condor" is one of many movies trying to explain that which baffles most people's minds. We drudge the ocean floor seeking rare pearls hidden in the mouths of otherwise practically worthless bivalves and pan for gold in the muddy waters of practically inaccessible waterways and get the notion that what is valuable in life is that which is obscured from normal view. Words and numbers have different meanings to different people and for those seeking secrets hidden in their perceptions of the symbols of the world around us will love this movie
1975 CIA Conspiracy Thriller, 2009-09-13
Joe Turner (Robert Redford) works in New York at the "Historical Society", which is the front for a CIA operation that reviews all literature, books, magazines, etc. from all over the world for possible plots and schemes. All ideas are fed into a computer that compares with CIA plots and international issues and threats. Joe is just a researcher, not a CIA Agent, but learns a lot about espionage, just reading books and other materials through his job.
Joe is late to work one rainy day in December and his boss corners him to let him know that a letter he sent the Langley CIA office was dismissed. Joe folds up the letter and puts it in his pants pocket to deal with later. His letter noted a realization that strong relationships were developing between Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and other oil producing countries and thought it was worth the CIA's effort to look into it.
We meet all of Joe's co-workers - 6 of them besides Joe. He starts his work and feeds pertinent information into the computer. Around 11:30 he is the designated person to do the lunch run to the Deli a block away. He ducks out a back entrance to avoid much of the rainy areas. While he is gone, the mailman is rung in the front door security. Other men come with him as they tear up the security tapes. Everyone in the office is killed within minutes and the killers leave. When Joe returns he finds the front door open and his co-workers shot. He soon realizes this is a hit and takes the receptionist's gun to protect himself as he runs to a phone booth to call the main CIA office.
His CIA code name is Condor - and he calls to give his section chief the information of the hit. He is told not to hang up the phone and to call again in two hours. The CIA "clean-up" team arrives within minutes to clear the carnage. They verify the killings to the main office. The New York section chief is stunned and wants to know why a research office would be gunned down. He calls his supervisor at CIA Headquarters.
Joe in the meantime is totally paranoid and dodges and hides until he is to be brought "in from the cold" - but realizes a set up in a back alley is meant to kill him. The agents he was to meet are an old friend (he trusts) and another CIA department head. He realizes his own department head is trying to kill him and shoots him with the gun he picked up. The Department head then shoots the other unknowing agent (a friend that Joe trusted). Now Joe feels he can trust no one. He is desperate and kidnaps a woman that he saw in a clothing store, Kathy (Faye Dunaway). They drive to her apartment and she lets him hide there, although he uses the gun to scare her. He just needs time to figure out what to do next.
The plot thickens and the action escalates. There are exciting twists and turns. Eventually Joe has his revenge. A very rewarding spy movie!
The other interesting notes on this movie is the technology 35 years ago. The computers and phone systems are archaic, but did not detract from the plot. Also the world issues on oil needs of the U.S. seem to always be in the news.
 Revealing Thriller, 2009-12-24
Recently watched this film again, decades after its release...and was quite pleased. Its interesting to compare this movie's mystery, action and suspense to present day thrillers! Blue work shirts and jeans---simple and sexy, worn very well by Redford, the cars, bikes, computers---fashion and background are nostalgic and fun! Redford's haircut is still better than John Edwards and I don't believe he paid the equivalent of $400--the Male Farrah Fawcett with his blond, feathered locks. Aside from sentiment and looks, the movie definitely shines, and you are rooting for the hero throughout. Quite enjoyable to realize that OIL, politics and power were entangled and continue to be; often the driving force behind present day suspense....
The Thriller sure to hold you glued until the finale., 2009-08-31
A wonderful crafted suspense tale which holds you until the last
frame. Redford at his best in a drama guaranteed not to bore for
a simgle moment. Also, a thinking person's flick. You watch the
first ten minutes and bet you can't tear yourself away.
Redford favorites., 2009-12-03
Other than Jerimiah Johnson, this rates as my favorite Robert Redford movie. It features solid acting, a captivating story line, and excellent editing. I am surprised that, in the day of re-makes, this has not been redone. The focus on Middle Eastern oil fits well into current political scenarios as well.
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