Sydney Pollack was the ultimate filmmaker for adults. He made thrilling, funny, exciting, and dramatic films that spanned all genres but they all shared two very specific attributes. They were made to be entertaining. And they were made for adults. That can be hard to grasp in today’s movie climate in which all studio action movies and thrillers are geared towards pre-teens and teenagers but 1975’s Three Days of the Condor is Pollack at his ultimate best. Pollack creates a tense, claustrophobic thriller that is as thrilling as any paperback by Ludlum or the other great thriller writers.
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