Movies
Three Days of the Condor
Sidney Pollack's spy thriller caters to an intellectual's tender ego, as innocence, book-learning, and beginner's luck are called upon to fend off an army of cold-blooded CIA agents and free-lance assassins. The solitary, hounded hero appears to be comfortable with thriller literature, art photography, and the New York Times, while his bureaucratic adversaries prefer to mire themselves in top-secret dossiers, code names, and closed-door conferences. In the manner the story is developed, the most appealing element (the mismatch of professional calculation against amateur unpredictability) is shunted aside to make way for standardized cat-and-mouse melodramatics. These at least provide some fairly enjoyable jolts. Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max Von Sydow. 1975.
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MPAA Rating: R
