Three Days Of The Condor Best Motion Picture Screenplay Awarded

Three Days of the Condor is a suspense film made in 1975 by the director Sydney Pollack and produced by Stanley Schneider. Lorenzo Semple Jr and David Rayfiel wrote the screenplay that was adapted from the novel Six Days of the Condor by James Grady. The movie unfolds in the contemporary backdrop of New York City. It showcases the moral ambiguity of the United States government that became visible in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.

The star cast in the movie Three Days of the Condor includes Robert Redford who plays the character of an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency. He unknowingly gets involved in a lethal power struggle within the CIA. The character of the CIA agent Joe Turner was played by Robert Redford. His job is to sit at the office and search through worlds newspapers and magazines reading between the lines to look for hidden meanings.

In the movie Three Days of the Condor Turner files a report to CIA headquarters on one of his findings about a cheap thriller he read that hinted at strange elements of a plot. Eventually as he was returning back from his lunch Joe realized that all six men in his office have been assassinated. Turner understood the grave danger that was approaching him. A couple of killings followed through until Turner realizes that he cannot trust any one from the CIA. He soon came to know that he was inadvertently getting involved in a bigger ploy.

Later in the movie Three Days of the Condor Turner initiates to solve the mystery of the killings on his own. On his search for a shelter he came across a hooker named Kathy Hale played by Faye Dunaway. She took him to her apartment. Later when Hale began to trust him they got involved into lovemaking. The scene flamed a controversy for its overtly sexual content.

The film Three Days of the Condor received a nomination in 1976 Academy Award for Film Editing. Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay was awarded to Semple and Rayfiel for their outstanding script. Radiohead in Fitter Happier used an excerpt from the film for their album Ok Computer. Turner gets back to New York and encounters Higgins. Higgins played by Cliff Robertson is the Deputy Director of CIA in New York City. At the end Turner tells Higgins that the press will certainly flash the conspiracy although Higgins does not believe him. Three Days of the Condor