Synopsis
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
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Cast
- Robert RedfordJoseph Turner
- Faye DunawayKathy Hale
- Cliff RobertsonJ. Higgins
- Max von SydowG. Joubert
- John HousemanMr. Wabash
- Addison PowellLeonard Atwood
- Walter McGinnSam Barber
- Tina ChenJanice Chon
- John Randolph JonesBeefy Man
- Michael KaneS.W. Wicks
Recommendations
- 90
IGN
3 Days of the Condor is a classic spy thriller. It remains just as relevant and thrilling today as it did in 1975. It's a film built around political metaphors and pessimism, trends that continue to spiral and evolve throughout our culture even today, with events unfolding that oddly mimic this film's once outlandish plot. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
A well-made thriller, tense and involving, and the scary thing, in these months after Watergate, is that it's all too believable. - 80
CineVue
Add to the mix gregarious powerhouse producer Dino De Laurentiis, plus regular Redford directorial collaborator Sydney Pollock and, unsurprisingly, the resulting film is a cracking thriller. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
A thrilling pseudo-expose on the corrupt inner workings of covert organizations. - 70
Time Out
Thanks to an intelligent script, partly by Lorenzo Semple Jr (Pretty Poison, The Parallax View), the action rarely falters, and at its best the film offers an intriguing slice of neo-Hitchcock. - 50
Variety
The film is a perfect contemporary example of an old studio formula approach to filmmaking. Basically a B, it has been elevated in form – but not in substance – via four bigger names, location shooting and more production values. Sometimes the trick works, but not here. - 50
Time
A piece of dotty, slightly paranoid intrigue. Three Days of the Condor promises little and keeps its word. It is hard to get indignant about it, or enthusiastic either. - 50
Newsweek
As a straight thriller Condor comes down to thrills that work and thrills that don't. [29 Sep 1975, p.84]
