Three Days of the Condor - Enzian Theater

50th Anniversary! Robert Redford Tribute Film!

From 2-time Academy Award winner Sydney Pollack comes the taut, paranoid thriller that helped define the New American Cinema movement of the 1960’s and ‘70s.

Robert Redford stars as Joe Turner, a mild-mannered CIA analyst whose quiet research job explodes into chaos when his entire office is massacred. Forced into hiding, Turner must outwit shadowy forces inside his own agency, unravel a conspiracy tied to U.S. covert operations, and decide whom he can trust—including a wary civilian, played by Faye Dunaway.

A critical touchstone, the film captured the deepening mistrust of government institutions in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, becoming a template for the modern political thriller. At its heart, the film is a showcase for Robert Redford, landing at #6 on the highest grossing films of 1975 (a year that included Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Dog Day Afternoon) and cementing his place as one of Hollywood’s most bankable leading men.

1975, 117 minutes, USA, In English and French, Directed by Sidney Pollack, Rated R

“An intriguing slice of neo-Hitchcock.”
– Chris Petit, TIME OUT
“A classic spy thriller. It remains just as relevant and thrilling today as it did in 1975. It's a film built around political metaphors and pessimism, trends that continue to spiral and evolve throughout our culture even today.”
– R.L. Shaffer, IGN
“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.”
– James Rocchi, NETFLIX
“This peerless Sydney Pollack thriller hasn't just aged well, it's become positively prophetic, or at least eerily resonant.”
– Kevin Maher, 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.”
– Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES