Because they meet when Turner takes her hostage, and their initial interactions are charged with the potential for sexual violence, the byplay between them plays quite differently through a contemporary lens. Her name is Kathy, and she’s a photographer (Faye Dunaway plays her, and would star as another New York photographer three years later, in Irvin Kershner’s Eyes of Laura Mars).
There is A Girl, of course there always is. He has to improvise, clumsily grabbing a gun as he flees the bloodbath, and doing… well, what exactly? (Act like the spies in books he’s read and movie’s he’s seen, most likely). and David Rayfiel, is how its genuine danger and urgency means that Turner – played here by Robert Redford – doesn’t have much of a learning curve. The genius of the story, both as told by Grady and by the screenwriters Lorenzo Semple Jr. Turner’s story was first told by James Grady in his novel Six Days of the Condor they really do have to streamline these things when they make them into movies, and thus we have the 1975 thriller Three Days of the Condor(new this week to the Criterion Channel, streaming for a while now on Amazon Prime). One day, all of Turner’s co-workers are ruthlessly executed, gunned down with military precision by a group of intruders. His name is Turner, and he works for the CIA – or, as it’s more often referenced, “The Company.” But he’s telling the truth he does his work in a remote office, located in a Manhattan brownstone, where he and other analysts pore over published works – novels, magazines, newspapers, and journals – for hidden messages and classified information. “I just read books.” And while that might be true, he’s going to have to learn to be a field agent, and do it pretty damn quickly.
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