Three Days Of The Condor Page #2

Synopsis: A mild mannered CIA researcher, paid to read books, returns from lunch to find all of his co-workers assassinated. "Condor" must find out who did this and get in from the cold before the hitmen get him.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Director(s): Sydney Pollack
Production: Paramount Home Video
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
R
Year:
1975
117 min
1,136 Views


I've got her gun. - Identify it.

It's a.45 automatic.

Will you guys bring me in, please?

I'm not a field agent.

I just read books! - Leave the area.

Alright.

Do I come into headquarters now?

Negative. Find a secure location.

- Where?

Avoid any place you are known.

Do not go home.

Surface again in two hours

and call the Major.

That'll be 14:
30 your time.

- Wait a minute, 2:30, right.

Walk away from the phone.

Don't hang it up. - Don't hang it...?

This is the Panic Officer.

Section 9-17 may have been hit.

Activate following procedures:

NY 1-2-7, D.C. 4-6-9.

Replay the report upcoming. Standby.

Augie 1 to New York Center:

- Go ahead, Augie 1.

Who am I talking to?

- Higgins, Deputy Director. Go ahead.

Hit confirmed. Six cold items.

- Quality? - Clean, fast, first rate.

Did you say 6? It should be 7.

- I repeat:
6. Here's a rundown:

Lappe, Chan, Russell, Jennings.

Martin and Mitchell.

- Alright Augie 1. Find 7.

"Condor".

Researcher, Tidepool,

likes to read comics.

Who is it?

Hey, you ring my buzzer?

It was a mistake, buddy.

Not you guys!

Hey, who are you?

Hey, who the hell are you?

Augie 3. We found item 7.

Ralf Heidegger. He bought it at home.

Okay, button it up, Augie.

I'll send you more janitors.

I need Langley, right away.

- Yes, sir.

Grover speaking. - Higgins, Deputy

Director, NY. Give me Department 17.

Somebody took out

one of your sections: 9-17.

New York. Somebody got mugged, maybe?

- They were hit.

They're bookworms! - They got 7 out

of 8. We're on the shuttle. 30 mins.

One of my people is still okay?

- Condor. You know him?

No. Can he say what happened?

- He was literally out to lunch.

What happened? - He's not in yet.

His first call was a little wild.

Who's bringing him in? - Higgins.

He's already booked on the shuttle.

I want a chopper on the pad,

fuel for New York, now.

They're waiting for you.

- What? - Your two friends.

They just got here.

Said you gave them the keys.

Mr. Turner?

This is the Major. - This is Condor.

- Standby. Routing you to NY Center.

Condor on 1-1, Mr. Higgins.

Hello, Condor.

Who's this? - Deputy Director Higgins,

New York Center. Where are you?

I need a code name, why don't you?

Where are you?

Here.

You alright?

- Are you insane? Everybody's dead!

Take it easy and we'll bring you home.

Here's how:

Do you know the Ansonia Hotel?

- Broadway and 71 st. - 73rd.

There's an alley behind the hotel.

One hour from now, at exactly 15:30,

I want you to enter that alley

from the 73rd Street side.

Will you be there?

The head of department came from D. C...

He'll bring you home.

I've never met him. - Don't worry.

He's studying your photos now.

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Lorenzo Semple Jr.

Lorenzo Elliott Semple Jr. (born Lorenzo Elliott Semple III; March 27, 1923 – March 28, 2014) was an American screenwriter and sometime playwright, best known for his work on the campy television series Batman and the political/paranoia movie thrillers The Parallax View (1974) and Three Days of the Condor (1975). more…

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