Three Days of the Condor at the Duke Screen Society

Tribute to Robert Redford (1936-2025)
(Sydney Pollack, 1975, 117 min, United States, English, DCP)

“In Sydney Pollack’s critically acclaimed suspense-thriller, Robert Redford stars as CIA Agent Joe Turner, code name: Condor. When his entire office is massacred, Turner goes on the run from his enemies… and his so-called allies. In his frantic hunt for answers, and in a desperate run for his life, Turner abducts photographer Kathy Hale (Faye Dunaway), eventually seducing her into helping him. With nowhere to turn and no one to trust, Turner realizes his most dangerous enemy may be closer than he ever feared. As he zeroes in on the truth, he discovers there are some secrets people would kill to keep.” – American Cinematheque
"Redford, Dunaway, Von Sydow, Cliff Robertson and John Houseman turn in superb work, and the film is as pure a thriller as one could hope for, with a gripping premise, hurtling plot and a marvelous air of menace." – NetFlix
“This peerless Sydney Pollack thriller hasn't just aged well, it's become positively prophetic, or at least eerily resonant.” – The Times (UK)
“[A] well-made thriller, tense and involving, and the scary thing, in these months after Watergate, is that it’s all too believable. Conspiracies involving murder by federal agencies used to be found in obscure publications of the far left. Now they’re glossy entertainments starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway. How soon we grow used to the most depressing possibilities about our government—and how soon, too, we commercialize on them.” – Roger Ebert, 1975

https://cinematicarts.duke.edu/screensociety/screenings/three-days-condor-1975-tribute-robert-redford-1936-2025
https://imdb.com/title/tt0073802

Let's gather 15 min before the show (which starts at 19:00) in front of the theater.

Group discussion will follow in the Rubenstein lobby or, if there is enough interest, at some downtown location nearby.