Espionage Aficionados discussion

'Three Days of the Condor'

The movie itself is available here free (with commercials).
https://pluto.tv/us/movies/5cb76b2234...

Below, is the still-image montage from the bedroom scene.














Cathy's apartment exteriors were filmed in posh, pricey Brooklyn Heights; where many other famous residents have resided over time (Truman Capote, W.H. Auden)


It's located at 9 Cranberry St; I often pass close by there going to-and-from my workplace.

What it looks like today:

Source: onthesetofnewyork dot com

Update --over the weekend --already knowing the film so well, but not having seen major sequences of it, in quite some time --I re-watched the first twenty minutes.

I gave great attention to every detail up to where Joe meets Cathy. He's running from the alley on 73rd/Broadway behind the famed Ansonia Hotel where he was --moments ago -- set up to be killed.

It's finesse indeed by Sidney Pollack, because if you look closely Joe is constantly running past empty park benches.

A lot of careful attention went into this superb adaptation of a superb novel by James Grady.

Fun Fact: loserish actor 'Ken Kercheval' --a face I've always despised from his role on TV's "Dallas" --here plays Redford's pal. He is ALSO one of Roy Scheider's elite felony/murder squad in, 'The Seven-Ups'. But otherwise, I wish I'd never seen this loser. What a worthless actor, seriously.

The clue to the whole mystery is openly laid in the first few minutes.

Turner can't figure out why a cheap paperback murder-mystery story which never sold any copies, was somehow translated into a bunch of languages around the world. Countries which make no apparent rhyme/reason. Turkish but not French. Arabic, but not Russian. Dutch and Spanish.

What Turner's unit basically does is scan published books to see if they are being used as code-keys by anyone. Since published books are available all around the world market, they make handy keys.

This is all explained in Ken Follett's "The Key To Rebecca"