Three Days of the Condor

Three Days of the Condor is a 1970s political thriller staring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway and Cliff Robertson. Redford plays Joseph Turner, whose CIA code name is Condor. While he is buying lunch for his fellow CIA research workers (OTL) in NY City, a hit team kills all of them. When Condor returns and sees the devastation it sends him on the run from whoever killed his team and the CIA. Along the way he hijacks Kathy Hale played by beautiful Faye Dunaway. While the rest of the story is predictable and the ending is ludicrous, I enjoyed be transported back to 1975. It is fun to see the "high tech" computers used by the CIA at that time. For those who were not living at that time computers were not ubiquitous as they are in 2012. They were used by people like me, academics, and by law enforcement and governmental agencies like the NSA and CIA. Phones play an interesting role in this movie. Again it is hard to believe how much phone technology has changed since 1975. Most will like this dated movie.