102 reviews
Sales Rank: 792

Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 117
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6

MPN: D088037D
ISBN: 0792156285
UPC: 097360880373
EAN: 9780792156284
ASIN: 6305511055

Theatrical Release Date: 1975
Release Date: August 17, 1999
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com essential video
Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack continued their longtime collaboration (the actor and director have worked together on Jeremiah Johnson, The Way We Were, The Electric Horseman, and Out of Africa, among other films) with this taut spy drama. Redford plays a reader for U.S. intelligence who becomes a hunted man after he is not among the victims of a mass murder of his colleagues. Faye Dunaway does solid work as the frightened and mystified woman whom he forces to conceal him, and Max von Sydow is appropriately cool as a professional assassin. That same, sustained tone of danger and expectation that made Pollack's The Firm so much fun can be found in this 1975 thriller, albeit with an appropriate dose of post-Watergate paranoia. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews: Read 97 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars

good movie but.... September 13, 2008
slightly dated as spy thrillers go. good movie, but copy has bad spot. effectd area is not crucial to plot but is annoying. i have seen this bad spot on another copy. so i think this was a transfer problem.

2 out of 5 stars

The Spirit of November September 13, 2008
When THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR was released in the mid-70s it was almost certain to be a hit because its two stars, Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway, were about the biggest two male and female marquee names in the country. The opening scenario, where Redford returns from his lunch hour to see all of the staff in his Manhattan office (which at first glance seems to be a literary society) gunned down was considered quite sensational in its time and generated quite a lot of word of mouth.

The director, Sydney Pollack, doesn't seem much idea as to what to do with the conspiracy thriller genre, however: there's not much excitement, and even the famous opening scenario might have been more chilling had we seen only what Redford sees when he returns from getting his lunch (instead, we see the killers go through the office gunning everyone down one by one). Pollack seems much more interested in his stars than his story, and Faye Dunaway, as a woman Redford kidnaps while running from the killers, actually does some of her most interesting work in her career with her surprisingly small part. Sometimes called "the last of the great movie stars," Dunaway often played larger-than-life roles during the height of her stardom that seemed worthy of a goddess rather than of an actress. Here, even though the screenplay ridiculously calls for her to play nothing less than the spirit of the month of November ( you'll have to see the actual movie to see what that is supposed to mean), she does some very nice smaller-scale work and has some lovely naturalistic moments, particularly in a nifty little scene where Redford forces her at gunpoint to take a call from her boyfriend. Redford does not fare nearly so well, in part because his hairdo seems more of the star of the piece than even he does: expertly arranged and dyed, it never seems to move even when he's in furious pitched kung-fu battle with an evil mailman. His limitations as an actor are also brought home in his scenes with Cliff Robertson, who is so much more natural with his line readings that he seems in a different league altogether. Even though the budget for this was extremely high for the period, the Dave Grusin score is embarrassingly measly and cheap-sounding; it sounds more appropriate for the underscoring of a Quinn-Martin detective series of the time than for a big-budget film. Also starring John Houseman, who plays a CIA bigwig exactly as if he were playing Professor Kingsfield again (even down to the same bow-ties, tweed jackets, and vests).

5 out of 5 stars

Three Days of the Condor July 1, 2008

Received one installment from the pen of the
Late, Great SYDNEY POLLACK . . . I've promised
myself a copy --- for years . . .

UNCOMMON suspense and skill . . .

5 out of 5 stars

Better than Blockbuster June 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is the second time I've simply purchased a DVD that's 'out of circulation' or not carried by any rentals like Blockbuster. Lord only knows why reruns of TV shows are easy to get but actual movies are not. Oh well, anyway it came on time, was undamaged and operated fine. Kudos.

4 out of 5 stars

Spy stories June 7, 2008
There is a trend to portray American intelligence agencies as vile and evil. This was probably the first, but it is probably the most exciting and interesting. It is a lso a good picture of New York City as it was a quarter of a century ago and how things were when Robert Redford and I were both a lot younger. Even if I disagree, it shows the grounds for disillusionment of my generation.