Film· 1975· Thriller

Three Days of the Condor

by Sydney Pollack

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The Condor

Book · 1974

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Sydney Pollack's film adapts James Grady's novel about a CIA reader who returns from lunch to find his colleagues murdered, compressing the novel's six days into three and moving the story to New York.

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Three Days of the Condor

A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust. Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 American spy thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow. The screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr. and David Rayfiel was based on the 1974 novel Six Days of the Condor by James Grady.