In 'Three Days of the Condor,' Robert Redford plays Joe Turner, a bookish CIA researcher who returns from lunch to find all his colleagues murdered. Forced to trust a woman he kidnapped at gunpoint, he races to uncover a dangerous conspiracy within his own agency. The film is a tense, paranoid thriller that captures the post-Watergate distrust of American institutions.
Pollack films Robert Redford as a CIA reader whose research unit is murdered. The film knows the agency is the conspiracy; the romance is incidental.