favorite movie #19: three days of the condor

Favorite movies that have had an impact on me - #19 - Three Days of the Condor (1975) - In honor of Robert Redford’s birthday on August 18, I’d like to share another one of my favorites of his films. This movie seems a companion piece to All the President’s Men, with its paranoia level ratcheted up a few more notches. As a CIA book analyst who comes back from fetching lunch for his colleagues to find them all “eliminated,” Redford is immediately put on his guard and on the run for the rest of the film. Along the he way he encounters Faye Dunaway, who he at first forces to help him, but who soon becomes a willing accomplice. Max Von Sydow and Cliff Robertson are both after him, but who poses the bigger threat? It also helps that Redford has never looked more handsome than in this film.

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