Three Days of the Condor

Three Days of the Condor
by Sydney Pollack

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Actor: Cliff Robertson, Faye Dunaway, John Houseman, Max von Sydow, Robert Redford
Director: Sydney Pollack
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-08-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount

DVD Reviews of Three Days of the Condor

DVD Review: A Classic Thriller and One of Redford's Best
Summary: 5 Stars

This is my favorite 70's film. It has a superb script, great acting, and is tautly edited. When viewed today, it does not come across as a period piece, but as a good story well told. Three days of the Condor is one of those rare movies that do the book justice. (By the way, if you like the film, try the novel Six Days of the Condor. You get three more days.)

This is a timeless movie with great production values and all serious film collectors should have Three Days of the Condor in their home library.

The Shut Mouth Society
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DVD Review: good movie but....
Summary: 3 Stars

slightly dated as spy thrillers go. good movie, but copy has bad spot. effectd area is not crucial to plot but is annoying. i have seen this bad spot on another copy. so i think this was a transfer problem.

DVD Review: The Spirit of November
Summary: 2 Stars

When THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR was released in the mid-70s it was almost certain to be a hit because its two stars, Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway, were about the biggest two male and female marquee names in the country. The opening scenario, where Redford returns from his lunch hour to see all of the staff in his Manhattan office (which at first glance seems to be a literary society) gunned down was considered quite sensational in its time and generated quite a lot of word of mouth.

The director, Sydney Pollack, doesn't seem much idea as to what to do with the conspiracy thriller genre, however: there's not much excitement, and even the famous opening scenario might have been more chilling had we seen only what Redford sees when he returns from getting his lunch (instead, we see the killers go through the office gunning everyone down one by one). Pollack seems much more interested in his stars than his story, and Faye Dunaway, as a woman Redford kidnaps while running from the killers, actually does some of her most interesting work in her career with her surprisingly small part. Sometimes called "the last of the great movie stars," Dunaway often played larger-than-life roles during the height of her stardom that seemed worthy of a goddess rather than of an actress. Here, even though the screenplay ridiculously calls for her to play nothing less than the spirit of the month of November ( you'll have to see the actual movie to see what that is supposed to mean), she does some very nice smaller-scale work and has some lovely naturalistic moments, particularly in a nifty little scene where Redford forces her at gunpoint to take a call from her boyfriend. Redford does not fare nearly so well, in part because his hairdo seems more of the star of the piece than even he does: expertly arranged and dyed, it never seems to move even when he's in furious pitched kung-fu battle with an evil mailman. His limitations as an actor are also brought home in his scenes with Cliff Robertson, who is so much more natural with his line readings that he seems in a different league altogether. Even though the budget for this was extremely high for the period, the Dave Grusin score is embarrassingly measly and cheap-sounding; it sounds more appropriate for the underscoring of a Quinn-Martin detective series of the time than for a big-budget film. Also starring John Houseman, who plays a CIA bigwig exactly as if he were playing Professor Kingsfield again (even down to the same bow-ties, tweed jackets, and vests).

DVD Review: Three Days of the Condor
Summary: 5 Stars

Received one installment from the pen of the
Late, Great SYDNEY POLLACK . . . I've promised
myself a copy --- for years . . .

UNCOMMON suspense and skill . . .

DVD Review: Better than Blockbuster
Summary: 5 Stars

This is the second time I've simply purchased a DVD that's 'out of circulation' or not carried by any rentals like Blockbuster. Lord only knows why reruns of TV shows are easy to get but actual movies are not. Oh well, anyway it came on time, was undamaged and operated fine. Kudos.

Description of Three Days of the Condor

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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