Turner’s discovery that the highly sensitive coding he unearthed (and which led to his office bloodbath) is a covert and illegal operation to seize Middle Eastern oil fields and prevent a State-side fuel shortage, is uncomfortably close to a modern geopolitical landscape.
The paranoia and deceit infused throughout the film is certainly still prevalent today, particularly given the current fragile political climate around the world and the underhanded nature of American imperialism. Robert Redford in Three Days of Condorįorced to essentially kidnap an unwitting civilian (Faye Dunaway) and hide out in her apartment while a hitman tracks him down, thus begins a treacherous and unpredictable quest for the protagonist as he attempts to wade through the murky inner politics of the intelligence service that has betrayed him. Employed to decipher any possible hidden messages in printed material churned out by sources from around world, Redford’s Joe Turner goes on the run when his whole team are butchered at the office. Of course, you’ll need to initially swallow leading man Redford as a nebbish low level CIA analyst, but this is the movies after all. Using the well-traversed machination of an ordinary guy wrapped up in extraordinary circumstances – and imbuing it with that post-Watergate malaise and creeping paranoia – Three Days of the Condor belongs with the similarly-styled Warren Beatty-headliner The Parallax View as a classic of the subgenre.
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