With his frequent collaborator Sydney Pollack directing, Three Days of the Condor showed that downbeat thrillers about life or death in the face of superior powers were elevated popcorn entertainment in the ‘70s.
In response to the political turmoil at the time, paranoid conspiracy thrillers were a mainstay in the 1970s. No entity was more sinister than the domestic government. A year before All the President’s Men, Robert Redford starred in one of the most entertaining political thrillers of the time. With his frequent collaborator Sydney Pollack directing, Three Days of the Condor showed that downbeat thrillers about life or death in the face of superior powers were elevated popcorn entertainment in the ‘70s.