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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792156284
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792156285
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 17, 1999
Running Time: 117 minutes
Sales Rank: 1712
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1975
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/11/2006 Run time: 117 minutes Rating: R
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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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Rating:  - After a remarkable tension build-up, it too light an ending
***** Contains spoiler ******
It's a work which has both very good and mediocre qualities. The build-up of the plot is just smashing. With well-paced action and competent acting, it's a remarkable work to watch.
Problem first erupts little when Redford kidnaps the lady. It is very difficult to believe that a lady would like to be part of the deadly problem Redford is in for just one night charm, no matter how lonely she is.
But the script does not do justice to itself when it converts a book reader into a first class professional spy to start wire tapping, entering other's home in clandestine, threatening people at gun point.
The justification to kill 7 of CIA's own people are all too wishy-washy as well.
Summarily, the good compact work of first half has been liquidated in the second because of a lose script.
Rating:  - A Classic Thriller and One of Redford's Best
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.
Rating: - good movie but....
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.
Rating:  - The Spirit of November
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Three Days of the Condor
Received one installment from the pen of the
Late, Great SYDNEY POLLACK . . . I've promised
myself a copy --- for years . . .
UNCOMMON suspense and skill . . .
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