Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Three Days Of The Condor - 1975 - 4 Stars

Actors:  Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway
Director:  Sydney Pollack

Note:  Minor Spoilers Ahead

Three Days Of The Condor is an Unwilling Participant film - by which I mean someone is taken hostage, yet somehow within the space of a day or so, is willing to risk her life and freedom for the person who's taken her hostage.  I'm blanking on the best examples of this genre - Commando comes to mind right away, but that film is a mountain of cheese whereas this one is a mere hillock.  Still, it's an exemplar of the genre - MacGuffins abound, people in clandestine organizations gnash their teeth about this lone, rogue, wolf, unaccounted for operative, and the film has a 70s bent that simply couldn't be replicated today.

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