Three Days of the Condor (1972) – Filmsack Show Notes

INTRO

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This week on FilmSack it feels like it has been at least 3 Days of the Condor since it was 1975. Sorry, No way to hide that weird ass title in my intro … kind of like that weird ass Max Von Sydow 70s mustache. Look at that face…it is a great face…but it has never been to space China.. except when it goes all Ming the Merciless 5 years later in Flash Gordon. Come on Robert Redford just try to phone freak that Mingo phone. I dare ya! Hello, yes…this is Boobie Slave…oh you have Boobie Hostage…see we aren’t so different after all you and me. Episode 68 of Filmsack…that is some Filmsack inside some Filmsack.

Anywho, I’m so tired I can’t think. If only I could take a little hostage nap where I’m the big spoon with a gun and you are the little spoon trying to get away but you don’t because I’m charming in a “is it really rape if he looks like 1970s Robert Redford with glasses?” yes…the answer is always yes! But, the night is young. Now excuse me… I got to go Judo chop the Mailman before he ventilates my insides. Would you like some hot coffee?….to the crotch! Ha! CONDOR AWAY!

Randy, When things quiet down…you are a very sweet man to be with.

NOTE: This movie talks a lot but doesn’t really say anything. But sometimes you just like to listen in…and that is ok.

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BRIEF

On a seemingly ordinary day, Joe Turner (Robert Redford), a quiet CIA codebreaker, walks into his workplace and finds that all of his coworkers have been murdered. Horrified, Joe flees the scene and tries to tell his supervisors about the tragedy. Unfortunately, he soon learns that CIA higher-ups were involved in the murders. With no one to trust, and a merciless hit man (Max von Sydow) close on his tail, Joe must somehow survive long enough to figure out why his own agency wants him dead.

Rated: R

1975 ‧ Thriller/Mystery ‧ 1h 57m

LINKS

IMDB – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/

WIKIPEDIA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor

Rotten Tomatoes – https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/three_days_of_the_condor

TVTropes – https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor

WHERE TO WATCH

Netflix – https://www.netflix.com/title/269715?source=35

MORE WAYS TO WATCH – https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/3-days-of-the-condor

TRAILER/CLIPS

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SHOW NOTES

This movie is old…right in the middle of the 1970s…. I bet gas prices are involved.
De Larentis!
Meanwhile at the slowest book flipper ever…I guess this is digitizing a book…fancy.
This is some Funky 80s TV music
Microfilm?
Shot in his room. not the heart.
Mr. Turner is late again…because that is believable…this old guy on a moped…laughing it up.
We can dope it out.
Neat… Wait…so is this program working on AI … feed it in something and it comes back out with something else.
Hey…look at this model…that was the last name.
Sydney Pollack.
This guy is a goof and the secretary is smoking and has a gun.
Please analyze the book.
This movie has a lot of chatter.
They are still talking about the dead guy. Apparently it was a 38..but they couldn’t recover the slug..no exit wound.
Ice…no bullet…no ballistics.
A little office romance.
Look at this face… it is a great face…but it has never been to china.
Dick Tracy… a very underrated dectective.
I wish you people would go through channels.
Hey kids…what’s on your mind?
Within obvious limits.
He is a jack of all trades. He knows everything. How to fix stuff…how to solve mysteries from the next room…technology…weatherman.
He wants to tell his friends..who he trusts.
You can’t leave out the back!! Even if it does save a block you Great Well Dressed Cornhoolio.
He is read..well read.
No Butter on Ray’s sandwhich…he gets very panicky about butter.
The watchers…
MailMan…the creep and the raincoat.
Wait wait…let’s talk about this…
I won’t scream… I know.
Noisy ass teletype thingy.
Anybody touch my motor scooter?
American Literary Historical Society.
Hey…what are you doing? You taking a nap? what the…
Lost his rug.
Runs headlong into danger.
Bathroom is occupodo.
Always go get lunch during the execution phase of the operation.
how long for the ash? …you messing up the crime scene.
Do these killers not know how to count? Max Von Sydow watched them come in…did he not notice.
Identify yourself… Section 9 … Condor.
Level of damage…complete. Listen you son of a bitch.
Are you damaged. I got the gun. It is a 45 automatic.
I’m not a field agent…I’m a book guy.
Do not go home. Surface again in 2 hours…no walk away from the phone…don’t hang it up. Bring it in.
I’m at the Panic Office. Send in the cleaners…
Meanwhile go to the museum. Go to the pretzel stand.
Twin Towers.
HIggins…I’m holding the baby.
Likes to read comic strips.
Is this a Christmas movie?
He ded.
This guy on the top floor is a nosey nose.
I’ll send you more janitors.
I need department 17…thats in NY
He was literally out to lunch.
How come I need a codename and you don’t.
Take it easy. We will bring you home.
He will have a Wall Street Journal. F’ the wall street journal.
Sam from Stats
Stay well for 60 minutes and you will be home. I will talk to you in 60 minutes.
Why he stacking them cans.
Hey Sam…I think you just killed sam… Damnit sam…
more like Flight of the Condor.
This is some funky movie music.
From the funk to the holiday music.
Kathy…Kathy…oh hi Kathy…meet my gun.
You live with a friend…no..you live alone.
Gas up the copter..
Its ok Cathy…
Gonna take the Car Elevator up to 12
Five Continents Imports Inc… I work in Imports.
Condor shot us both! Lies!
He reads… how did he learn. He reads… everything.
Has he turned around. Let’s ask all the questions. Why is he still in flight.
It’s a cover…I work for the CIA.
All you got to do is match up the 2 numbers in the phone book for CIA and Industries.
Cathy likes to photo.
I told you I have a friend.
I’m scared. What are you scared for….you have the gun.
What time does the news come on? 6
I’m so tired…I need a nap. Come on take a hostage nap with me.
you are funny..You take lonely photos…of winter…more like November
I didn’t shoot my friend!
You don’t believe me!
I need your car…it is called Grand Theft.
My man is in Vermont.
That gun gives you the right to rough me up.
Have I raped you? The night is young.
You bully..scoundrel…
Don’t tie me up…This is unfair.
Do I have a plan…
Whatever happened to my motorbike…
Does my jacket have a collar…yes… flip
Uh oh…she set a table for a bunch of dead people.
When did Sam call?
Is that Sydow…can’t quite tell…
You drop this glove?..no…then I will just put it here.
Happy birthday to Grandpa….
This is one busy elevator.
Kids probably the same everywhere.
Most uncomfortable elevator ride ever… This is the second floor….after you…no…go ahead.
5 bucks to bust into my car…
Yeah I don’t mind using these urban kids as my human shields.
Got your plate…you in trouble now
The only way to sus out a situation in the 1975…don’t answer the phone.
act casual and nice.
This conversation and inner workings of this high class relationship is hard to listen to.
Two faces in a scene….intimate.
Listen I will be going in the morning…after I gave the bad guy your license plate number.
Was it safe…outside…where you went? I am unsure.
I don’t think I remember any Faye Dunaway performances where she is soft and not a hard ass bad ass.
I wouldn’t have called the police. Sometimes I take a picture that is not like me…but it is…I put those pictures away…I would like to see those pictures…we don’t know each other that well….I can’t show you my crotch pics.
You would rather be with someone on his way.
Beautiful pictures…of nothing.
I just want to stop it…for a few hours.
Why haven’t you asked me to untie your hands…
Simply irresistible…
Here come the horns…must mean the sexy…cause the horns.
Empty like me….empty streets…empty seats…in November…let’s fire this place up…sexy photo montage time.
No no..yes..yesh…yeeesh.
Heiddigger hit at house.
he has been carrying around that piece of paper in his back pocket for 3 days.
Wicks…damnit wicks.
Have I ever denied you anything?
When things quiet down…you are a very sweet man to be with.
You talked in your sleep…who is Janis? Was she a volunteer or a draftee like me? She was a friend…
You can always depend on the Old Spy Fucker…is that what she just said? Haha
Special delivery…would you like some hot coffee? To the crotch!
Go for the gun…Judo…chop! Flash!
Redford throwing them bullets out of the gun
Listen…you are ok…
Key for 819
This guy ain’t been nothing but trouble ever since he got here.
He is rough on those keys.
I file a report to my section chief.
Did you know the mailman?
Did he go double?
Towers of the twins
I would do it…because he has this huge gun. Sike!!
I underestimated him…again
Maybe there is another cia in the cia
phone are exciting!!
I’m doing a survey. Do you believe the condor is really in danger
phone freak!
alright… run lucifer
Where are you Condor…shhh…quiet down..
Who is Leonard Atwood?
Are we even pals anymore
Major Wheels the phone operator.
He keeps harping on those pictures….
I quit smoking 3 years ago..you made me take them up again
You have a lot of very fine qualities….buuuuut.
You have good eyes…not prying…but they don’t lie and they don’t look away much …. I could use eyes like that
I need time…do you understand what I am saying…
Rocking that Hi-fi…got you right where I need you baby…
Deputy Director of Operations. Middle East. What are you working on?
A book in Dutch…what is so important about… Oil Fields…I knew it…it is the 70s…had to come back to Oil and gas.
This whole damn thing was about Oil wasn’t it.
I got my answers…
This move was predictable…what..
He’s with the company..
Not about the why… about the how much baby!
I ain’t here for you…I have no arrangement
personally I prefer Europe
No need to believe in either side…just belief in yourself.
For that day.
Do we have plans to invade the Middle East. We have games…what if. Is there a cheaper way to destabilize ..
7 people killed…and you play fucking games.
The New York Times. They got all of it.
You play games. I told them a story.
You poor dumb son of a bitch.
How do you know if they will print it? Take a walk.