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The profound depths of CIA deception
Robert Redford does a fine job in his portrayal of unsuspecting CIA research analyst Joe Turner, code named Condor in the suspenseful espionage thriller directed by Sydney Pollack "Three Days of the Condor". Redford goes out for lunch for his fellow researchers in the Manhattan CIA station and returns to find them all assassinated. The hit team is coordinated by contract assassin Joubert played by a cooly professional Max Von Sydow. <
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>This begins Redford's paranoic flight to come to grips with what has happened. He kidnaps the innocent Kathy Hale, a photographer played by Faye Dunaway, who he recruits to shelter him in her place while he figures out his next move. A meeting arranged with his station chief arranged by deputy CIA director Higgins played by Cliff Robertson results on an attempt on Redford's life. All the while he's being stalked by Von Sydow and his team of killers. <
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>He realizes that there is a clandestine branch of the CIA running an operation which a speculative report filed by Redford had unwittingly revealed. The game of cat and mouse continues until Redford gets answers finally from Robertson. He however has no assurances that his life will be free of danger even after he reveals the mechanisms of the illicit operation to the press. <
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>Sydney Pollack does an excellent job in representing the secretive tenor of government operations during a sensitive era in U.S. history replete with orchestrated coverups like Watergate. Using both New York and Washington as an effective backdrop he utilizes both locales to help fuel the complexities of the various twists in plot that add to the tension of the film.

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Semi-Truthful
A good suspenseful movie about the spy game. Redford plays a CIA analyst who comes back from lunch [the diner is still on Lextington ave.] and everyone in the office has been murdered. The intent of the movie is to show us how evil the CIA can be, typical Hollywood left wing propoganda of the time, 1975. The CIA thinks someone in the office is a double agent so everyone must go. I hope they would be this efficient today. This movie wants the government to play fair in a very ruthless cold-war world. Redford just wants out but he doesn't know who to trust, and it appears the best result for the shadow government is to elimate Turner played by Redford. The idea is that our government will do whatever is needed to maintain our way of living as will all other governments, even killing innocent people to protect us. Boy I hope so. Did the CIA lie to President Bush to get us into Iraq? This is a suspenseful and entertianing film with a good cast Faye Dunaway, Max Von Sydow and Cliff Robertson. Where is this CIA today, instead of arresting terrorists they should be dumping them in land fills.

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RENT ONLY
It all begins with the assassination of the entire staff of a New York CIA office that does reading research; except one person (Robert Redford) who was out for lunch. Redford goes into hiding trying to discover the plot behind the massacre. Story and Photography is very basic. Quality of the DVD OK. This is not a movie to buy and keep as you will never ever watch it again. Rent will do for those days where you don't know what to watch.