THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (15)
D: Sydney Pollack
Paramount (Stanley Schneider)
US 1975
118 mins
Thriller
W: Lorenzo Semple, Jr. & David
Rayfiel [based on the novel "Six Days of the Condor" by James Grady]
DP: Owen Roizman
Ed: Fredric Steinkamp & Don
Guidice
Mus: Dave Grusin
Robert Redford (Joe Turner), Faye
Dunaway (Kathy Hale), Cliff Robertson (Higgins), Max Von Sydow (Joubert), John Houseman (Mr. Wabash)
Robert Redford plays Joe Turner, codenamed Condor, an innocent
researcher for a branch of the CIA who is targeted for assassination by a rival branch of government secret agents.
Amongst the best thrillers of the 1970's, which is quite a
remarkable achievement considering it was a decade which featured plenty.
8/10