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daily nebraskan
page 13
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Photo courtesy of Paramount Productions
Robert Redford stars as a CIA man in Three
Days of the Condor.
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Review By Robert Thurber
As one might expect, Three Days of the Condor, a
recent Paramount release, is only half as stimulating as
Six Days of the Condor, the not-so-successful book from
which it was taken.
This Sydney Pollack (They Shoot Horses Don't They?)
tilm rums out to be an almost intriguing spy adventure
that offers a fairly intelligible plot, less intelligible dialogue
and very little suspense. What the movie offers, however,
is Robert Redford, which by todays standards seems to be
enough. Condor is familiar material-so familiar that it
becomes predictable after awhile and loses ' its novelty.
The idea behind Condor is an interesting one, especially
in light of recent CIA uncoverings by Phillip- Agee, the
Rockefeller Commission and other Washington agencies and
committees.
Low-level CIA
Redford plays Turner, code name Condor, a low-level
CIA woikcr who reads, analyzes and computerizes fiction
as part of the agencies' overall intelligence operation. He
has discovered, through his readings, what he thinks to be
an interesting irregularity in a novel, but his superiors in
Washington aren't interested. Or are they?
After lunch one rainy afternoon, Turner returns to the
office (cleverly disguised as the American Literary
Histdrical Society) to find that his coworkers have been
savagely and expediently murdered.
Realizing that a similar fate awaits him, Turner lays low
to discover who or what is at the bottom of it all. Using his
code name he contacts Central Headquarters and finds out
they too are out to kill him. Alone against everyone, he
goes on the run to avoid annihilation and to unravel the
thread of mystery.
Basic hero
Only two problems: it is evident from the outset that
Turner is your basic hero type and therefore not subject
to annihilation, and the thread of mystery he's supposed
to unravel is reminiscent of every spy thriller ever written.
Director Pollack has an excellent cast of costars that
includes Cliff Robertson, Max Von Sydow and John
Houseman. Unfortunately, not even the efforts of these
talented actors is enough to enlighten a rather unenlighten
ing script.
Not much good can be said about Three Days of the
Condor without immediate qualification. It is enjoyable but
nothing worth remembering; entertaining but empty.
Perhaps the film would have benefited from extensive
editing. It could have been retitled One Day of the Condor
and saved us all 48 hours of unnecessary time.
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