A paranoid conspiracy thriller? In the seventies? James Grady wrote a book 'Six Days of the Condor' the year before, but they thought six days was too long. Lorenzo Semple Jr (
Pretty Poison, Papillon, The Parallax View) and David Rayfiel (
The Firm, Havana, Round Midnight) wrote for the screen, and it's a terrific, tense thriller in which no one can be trusted. Tremendously boosted by a great supporting cast of Max von Sydow as an urbane assassin, Cliff Robertson and John Houseman, ably led by the cool Robert Redford (you can
see him thinking) and the empathetic Faye Dunaway. One good tense scene follows another, rounded off by a suitably opaque ending.
With a distinctively seventies soundtrack by Dave Grusin, shot by Owen Roizman in Panavision. Very skilfully put together by Pollack and editor Don Guidice (
A New Leaf, The Yakuza).
Crazy fonts you got back then:
Can't help but loving seventies NYC films. The cars!
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