History Film / ThreeDaysOfTheCondor

* TeamKiller: Joe Turner works for the CIA, reading books to detect any leaks of sensitive material. While out to lunch, Turner's BadBoss Joubert arrives with some mooks at Turner's workplace, and slaughters everyone there. Turner takes innocent Kathy Hale hostage, and hides out in her apartment until he can figure out why his superiors want him silenced forever.
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* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: Turner, a white man, clearly has an attraction to his Asian co-worker, though he also has a white girlfriend.

* StockholmSyndrome: Kathy is taken prisoner by Turner, and in spite of his rough treatment of her, quickly develops an infatuation with him, driven in part by her alienation to her fiance and connecting with him over her photographs.

* SniperPistol: Joubert uses a silenced and scoped [[CoolGuns/{{Handguns}} Broomhandle Mauser]] at one stage.

''Three Days of the Condor'' is a 1975 political thriller film directed by Creator/SydneyPollack, starring Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/FayeDunaway, Creator/CliffRobertson, and Creator/MaxVonSydow.

Mild-mannered researcher Joe Turner (Redford) works for the [[UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Central Intelligence Agency]] in a small building in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, reading book after book to review their plots to see if they either contain elements that may be similar to ongoing covert operations or else be useful ideas for the CIA to employ. One day during the holiday season, Turner steps out of the office to grab some lunch at a nearby deli. While he's gone, a hit squad led by Joubert (von Sydow) enters the office and kills Turner's co-workers (including love interest Janice). Terrified, Turner calls in the deaths to his CIA handlers, who prompt him for his codename 'Condor' and order him to follow procedures for pick-up and debriefing. In the process, things keep getting messier and Turner begins to worry that his own employer the CIA is trying to murder him.

After a botched pick-up gets Turner's last friend in the CIA killed, Turner is forced to kidnap Kathy Hale (Dunaway) and use her apartment as a hideout. At first afraid for her life, Hale rather quickly falls for Turner and they sleep together. With her help, Turner is able to capture CIA honcho Higgins (Robertson) who reveals he himself is in the dark and wants Turner to stay "on the outside" to draw out the assassins so the CIA can figure out who's rotten within their own ranks. Now all Turner has to do is survive Joubert's attempts on his life, keep Kathy safe, and figure out why someone in the CIA wants him dead...

* FilmOfTheBook: The book came out in 1974 written by James Grady, and was called "Six Days of the Condor". The names of the characters were different, it had another reason for killing the readers (some higher ups in the CIA used the book shipments to smuggle drugs), and had another faction (Oversight, which polices all intelligence agencies and reports only to the Senate).

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Mild-mannered researcher Joe Turner (Redford) works for the [[UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Central Intelligence Agency]] in a small building in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, reading book after book to review their plots to see if they either contain elements that may be similar to ongoing covert operations or else be useful ideas for the CIA to employ. One day during the holiday season Turner steps out of the office to grab his co-workers lunch at a nearby deli... during which a hit squad led by Joubert (von Sydow) enters the office and kills Turner's co-workers (including love interest Janice). Terrified, Turner calls in the deaths to his CIA handlers, who prompt him for his codename 'Condor' and order him to follow procedures for pick-up and debriefing. In the process, things keep getting messier and Turner begins to worry that his own employer the CIA is trying to murder him.

'''Joe Turner''': Wh- wh- Rough you up? Have I roughed you up?
--> '''Kathy''': Yes! What are you doing in my house?
--> '''Joe Turner''': Have I? Have I?

Mild-mannered researcher Joe Turner (Redford) works for the [[UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Central Intelligence Agency]] in a small building in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, reading book after book to review their plots to see if they either contain elements that may be similar to ongoing covert operations or else be useful ideas for the CIA to employ. One day during the holiday season Turner steps out of the office to grab his co-workers lunch at a nearby deli... during which a hit squad led by Joubert (von Sydow) enters the office and kills Turner's co-workers (including love interest Janice). Terrified, Turner calls in the deaths to his CIA handlers, who prompt him for his code name 'Condor' and order him to follow procedures for pick-up and debriefing. In the process, things keep getting messier and Turner begins to worry that his own employer the CIA is trying to murder him.

--> '''Kathy''': You're not entitled to personal questions! That gun gives you the right to rough me up; it doesn't give you the right to ask me...
--> '''Joe Turner''': Wh- wh- Rough you up? Have I roughed you up?

-->'''Joubert:''' [[AffablyEvil Would you move from the window please.]]
-->'''Janice:''' ''(calmly)'' I won't scream.
-->'''Joubert:''' I know.

* ProperlyParanoid: For the movie itself, ''Condor'' came out right after Watergate and Vietnam exposed a lot of criminal goings-on in government. [[LampshadeHanging And for Turner,]] this is how one day of being hunted by trained CIA assassins makes him this.
--> '''Higgins''': You never complained until yesterday.
--> '''Turner''': You didn't start killing ''my friends'' until yesterday!

''Three Days of the Condor'' is a 1975 political thriller film directed by Creator/SydneyPollack, starring Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/FayeDunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Creator/MaxVonSydow.

Mild-mannered researcher Joe Turner (Redford) works for [[UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Central Intelligence Agency]] in a small building in New York, reading book after book to review their plots to see if they either contain elements that may be similar to ongoing covert operations or else be useful ideas for the CIA to employ. One day during the holiday season Turner steps out of the office to grab his co-workers lunch at a nearby deli... during which a hit squad led by Joubert (von Sydow) enters the office and kills Turner's co-workers (including love interest Janice). Terrified, Turner calls in the deaths to his CIA handlers, who prompt him for his code name 'Condor' and order him to follow procedures for pick-up and debriefing. In the process, things keep getting messier and Turner begins to worry that his own employer the CIA is trying to murder him.

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''Three Days of the Condor'' is a 1975 political thriller starring Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/FayeDunaway, Cliff Robertson and Creator/MaxVonSydow. It was directed by Creator/SydneyPollack.

* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Hale is kidnapped, held at gunpoint, bound and gagged by Turner--and the next day she's having sex with him. Unlike other examples of this trope however, she leaves him before the end of the movie, implying it was more in the nature of a dangerous fling with a stranger before she settled down with her fiancé than anything else.