Three Days Of The Condor Was Made During Tense, Post-Watergate Times
The 1975 film Three Days of the Condor was a post-Watergate thriller that succinctly portrayed the public’s paranoia during a tense political climate. The movie stars Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow. It centers on a CIA researcher who returns from a lunch break and discovers all of his colleagues are dead. While trying to figure out what happened and who he can trust, he tries to outmaneuver and outlast the killers. The movie made its mark because the plot didn’t seem that far out of the question following the Watergate scandal. Director Sydney Pollack denied it was political propaganda.
