History Film / ThreeDaysOfTheCondor

* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Hale is kidnapped, held at gunpoint, bound and gagged by Turner--and the next day she's having sex with him.

* BulletproofVest: Subverted. A CIA clerk who is a friend of the protagonist Turner is asked to help bring him in for debriefing and is issued a bulletproof vest "just in case". [[spoiler:In reality the meeting is a set-up to kill Turner -- when it goes wrong the wounded killer aims carefully and [[YouKnowTooMuch shoots the clerk in the throat]].]]

* AmbiguousEnding: A BittersweetEnding at best, with the tone leaning towards a DownerEnding. [[spoiler: Despite his ArmorPiercingQuestion, Higgens's [[OhCrap initial response]] to Turner's claim that he told everything to the New York Times suggests that he's not so certain what they'll do either.]] Even the best-case scenario means [[spoiler: a massive blow to the US's plans overseas, not to mention the CIA's covert operations.]]

-->[[spoiler: '''Higgins:''' Hey, Turner! [[ArmorPiercingQuestion How do you know they'll print it?]]]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Joubert dies in the book, but lives after saving Turner's life in the movie.]]

* LeftHanging: The film ends with uncertainty as to whether [[spoiler:Turner's story will get out, whether he'll run from the CIA, and whether the CIA will try to kill him]].

* ProductPlacement: Surely the reason why an [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece Eastern Airlines]] plane is prominently featured, and an Eastern Airlines TV commercial plays when Turner turns the TV on.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: See the DownerEnding and WhamLine below.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:With eight innocent people dead all because of what Higgins calls "a war game," Turner reveals to Higgins that Turner had told everything to the ''New York Times.'' But as Turner walks away...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Higgins''': Hey, Turner! How do you know they'll print it? ''How do you know...?'']]
** [[spoiler:Also it's suggested that Turner will eventually be killed too, as he is unwilling to flee the country as Joubert advises.]]
** [[spoiler:...assuming Turner's sudden death doesn't trigger a sudden belief in his story.]]

* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Hale is kidnapped, held at gunpoint, bound and gagged by Turner--and that same night she's having sex with him.

* StockholmSyndrome: Kathy's decision to sleep with Turner clearly has elements of this. [[spoiler:Until an assassin bursts into her home the next day, she has no reason to believe that anything Turner says is true.]] The squick is toned down a bit by his connecting his earlier observation that her photographs have a fleeting, "November; not Autumn, not Winter, in between" element to them, to her interest in people.
** Kathy has also been stalling over getting married to her fiance, so there's an implication that it's a final passionate fling with a stranger whom she doesn't have to commit to. Note that she leaves Turner, whereas normally they'd at least stick together till the end of the movie.

* GenreSavvy (InUniverse): Turner, due to his [[ButIReadABookAboutIt constant reading of action novels and comics as part of his job]]. Whether that's why he had a certain insight into Kathy's photography, or he's just that appreciative of it to begin with, isn't clear.

* AdaptationDistillation: The original novel had [[spoiler:drug trafficking]] as the purpose of the internal conspiracy. [[spoiler: After the 1973 energy crisis, the filmmakers decided to use oil instead.]] The original author agreed that this was a better and more plausible purpose.

Mild-mannered researcher Joe Turner (Redford) works for [[{{CIA}} Central Intelligence Agency]] in a small building in New York, reading book after book to review their plots to see if they either contain elements that may be similar to ongoing covert operations or else be useful ideas for the CIA to employ. One day during the holiday season Turner steps out of the office to grab his co-workers lunch at a nearby deli... during which a hit squad led by Joubert (von Sydow) enters the office and kills Turner's co-workers (including love interest Janice). Terrified, Turner calls in the deaths to his CIA handlers, who prompt him for his code name 'Condor' and order him to follow procedures for pick-up and debriefing. In the process, things keep getting messier and Turner begins to worry that his own employer the CIA is trying to murder him.

* FilmOfTheBook: Came out 1974 written by James Grady called Six Days of the Condor. The names of the characters were different, it had another reason for killing the readers (some higher ups in the CIA used the book shipments to smuggle drugs), and had another faction (Oversight, which polices all intelligence agencies and reports only to the Senate).

A TV remake, known as ''Series/Condor'', is currently airing on Audience.

** Kathy has also been stalling over getting married to her fiance, so there's an implication that it's a final passionate fling with a stranger who she doesn't have to commit to.

* LondonEnglandSyndrome: Turner asks a phone operator for the Washington area code, then quickly appends that with "D.C.". While there is another well-known Washington in the US (a state in the Pacific Northwest), it's far too big to have a single area code.

* AffablyEvil: Joubert. He comes to respect Turner after his various escape attempts. [[spoiler: And after killing Atwood instead of Turner, Joubert offers Turner friendly advice, a ride to the train station... and even a gun. He seems ''relieved'' to no longer need to kill him, in fact.]]

* LondonEnglandSyndrome: Turner asks a phone operator for the Washington area code, then quickly appends that with "D.C.".

''Three Days of the Condor'' is a 1975 political thriller starring Creator/RobertRedford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson and Creator/MaxVonSydow. It was directed by Creator/SydneyPollack.

''Three Days of the Condor'' is a 1975 political thriller starring Creator/RobertRedford, Creator/FayeDunaway, Creator/CliffRobertson and Creator/MaxVonSydow. It was directed by Creator/SydneyPollack.

Mild-mannered researcher Joe Turner (Redford) works for [[{{CIA}} Central Intelligence Agency]] in a small building in New York, reading book after book to review their plots to see if they either contain elements that may be similar to ongoing covert operations or else be useful ideas for the CIA to employ. One day during the holiday season Turner steps out of the office to grab his co-workers lunch at a nearby deli... during which a hit squad led by Joubert (von Sydow) enters the office and kills Turner's co-workers (and love interest Janice). Terrified, Turner calls in the deaths to his CIA handlers, who prompt him for his code name 'Condor' and order him to follow procedures for pick-up and debriefing. In the process, things keep getting messier and Turner begins to worry that his own employer the CIA is trying to murder him.

* AffablyEvil: Joubert. He comes to respect Turner after his various escape attempts. [[spoiler: And after killing Atwood instead of Turner, Joubert offers Turner friendly advice, a ride to the train station... and even a gun. He seems ''relieved'' to no long need to kill him, in fact.]]

* UsefulNotes/ColdWar: Higgins justifies what happens because "The [[DirtyCommunists other side]] plays games too."

* FilmOfTheBook: Came out 1974 written by James Grady called Six Days of the Condor. The names of the characters were different, it had another reason for killing the readers (some higher ups in the CIA used the book shipments to smuggle drugs), had another faction (Oversight, which polices all intelligence agencies and reports only to the Senate) and killed [[spoiler:Kathy on the last pages]].
** Actually, [[spoiler: Kathy (called Wendy in the book) was thought to be dead, but survived, though barely.]]