3 Days of the Condor (1975) ( Three Days of the Condor )

3 Days of the Condor (1975) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Three Days of the Condor
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cartagena Film Festival
David Donatello Awards
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
120 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1975 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Sydney Pollack

Written By:
James Grady
Lorenzo Semple Jr.

Actors:
Robert Redford ..... Joseph Turner/The Condor
Faye Dunaway ..... Kathy Hale
Cliff Robertson ..... J. Higgins
Max von Sydow ..... G. Joubert
John Houseman ..... Wabash
Addison Powell ..... Leonard Atwood
Walter McGinn ..... Sam Barber
Tina Chen ..... Janice Chon
Michael Kane ..... S.W. Wicks
Don McHenry ..... Dr. Ferdinand Lappe
Michael B. Miller ..... Fowler (as Michael Miller)
Jess Osuna ..... The Major
Dino Narizzano ..... Harold
Helen Stenborg ..... Mrs. Edwina Russell
Patrick Gorman ..... Martin

Synopsis:

Joe Turner, code name Condor, works as a reader for Section 17 - fronting as the American Literacy Historical Society - of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The section's readers read everything that is published to see if the material is being used or planted by national security agencies for the US or enemy regimes in actual operations. The office for the section, which is comprised of eight people in total, is located in a nondescript but secure building in New York City. After returning to the office from a lunch food run for which he initially left the building through an unofficial entrance/exit, Condor finds that all six of his colleagues at work that day, including his girlfriend Janice Chon, have been executed, their dead bodies strewn throughout the office. The seventh has been murdered in his home. Not knowing any of his superiors outside the section, Condor slowly begins not to trust the organization itself. After a botched attempt to bring him in, Condor decides to go on the run and try and figure out what is happening on his own. In his quest, Condor kidnaps a young, seemingly lonely woman named Kathy Hale, who, despite being scared by what is happening, eventually believes Condor's story and decides to help him. He also believes the executions have something to do with the tall Alsatian accented man he keeps encountering, and the last report he wrote and submitted to his superiors outside the section.

A man named Turner works for the CIA reading books and postulating possible scenarios that could be applied to intelligence work. He goes out to get lunch but when he returns everyone at the center has been killed. He calls his superior and asks for someone to bring him in, he tells him that his section chief will get him but when he arrives, the man tries to shoot him, he manages to shoot back and escape. In an act of desperation, the abducts a woman and forces her to shelter him until he can figure out what is going on. When someone goes to the woman's house and tries to kill him, he kills the man and discovers that he has a connection to the CIA, which means that someone in the CIA is behind the attempt on him.

A mild mannered CIA researcher, paid to read books, returns from lunch to find all of his co-workers assassinated. 'Condor' must find out who did this and get in from the cold before the hit men get him.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 15 September, 2010.

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