Three Days of the Condor (1975) - Full Reaction
Added 2025-11-03 10:30:06 +0000 UTCRobert Redford was a true star wasn’t he? He will be missed and I’m so happy he got to make so many great movies. This was a great conspiracy thriller and I loved watching with Carly again! I spent the whole movie trying to figure out the twists and turns and admittedly got lost a few times but we were locked in!
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I doubt the New York Times printed the story… “The CIA used more than 400 journalists from 1953 to 1977. “Some of these journalists’ relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit,” Bernstein reports. “There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services—from simple intelligence gathering to serving as go-betweens with spies in Communist countries. Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners.” Through the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA had co-operation from “some of the most powerful organizations and individuals in American journalism.” Among 25 news organizations that co-operated, the New York Times, CBS and Time magazine gave the most valuable help.” https://fcpp.org/2021/06/28/the-cias-media-assets/
Larry Darrell
2025-11-05 05:58:54 +0000 UTCJust watched. Good reaction. Great to see Carly again. Some things sticking with me: Is it the Utah girl in Cassie that makes her associate Redford and the Sundance Film Festival with Sundance Canyon and NOT the Sundance Kid (ie, Butch Cassidy and the . . . who played Sundance again?)? The font of the movie title is also used in Rollerball (also 1975) which also is another 1970’s dystopian look at ‘who really runs things’ (those movies were big in the late 60’s and 70’s - there could easily be a poll). Rollerball also has both James Caan and the late, great John Houseman in the cast - the latter of which makes me think you should really watch The Paper Chase (1973) (about going to Harvard Law School - the title of the movie still had a lot of purchase decades later). This movie came out in 1975, the same year as the Church Hearings in the US Senate which investigated and outed abuses by the intelligence community. The media did not pile on those hearings with same zeal they showed for the Watergate Hearings which forced Nixon to resign the presidency - which always made me think there is no way the New York Times published the story here. But I could never settle on whether Turner was eventually killed or just basically totally discredited as a paranoid nut and thereafter left alone. As for the two of them hooking up, it just goes to show you that even in the 1970’s it was tough for a girl to find a good man in New York City (or, conversely, NYC women were always at least a little bit crazy). Either way, it helped if the guy looked like Robert Redford.
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2025-11-04 23:59:20 +0000 UTC
