Editing Three Days of the Condor (section)

{{short description|1975 film by Sydney Pollack}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Three Days of the Condor
| image          = Three Days of the Condor poster.JPG

| alt            = 
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Sydney Pollack]]
| producer       = Stanley Schneider
| screenplay     = {{Plainlist|
* [[Lorenzo Semple Jr.]]
* [[David Rayfiel]]
}}
| based_on       = {{based on|''[[Six Days of the Condor]]''|[[James Grady (author)|James Grady]]}}
| narrator       = 
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Robert Redford]]
* [[Faye Dunaway]]
* [[Cliff Robertson]]
* [[Max von Sydow]]
}}
| music          = [[Dave Grusin]]
| cinematography = [[Owen Roizman]]
| editing        = [[Don Guidice]]<br />[[Fredric Steinkamp]] (supervising)
| studio         = [[Dino De Laurentiis|Dino De Laurentiis Corporation]]
| distributor    = [[Paramount Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1975|09|25|US}}
| runtime        = 118 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $7.8 million<ref name="dinod">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-30-fi-5144-story.html |title=De Laurentiis: Producer's Picture Darkens |last=Knoedelseder |first=William K. Jr |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=August 30, 1987 |page=1 |access-date=January 19, 2021 |archive-date=March 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210328153738/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-30-fi-5144-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
| gross          = $41.5 million (US/Canada)<ref name=numbers>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1975/03DOC.php|work=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]|title=Three Days of the Condor|access-date=January 22, 2012|archive-date=January 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127122609/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1975/03DOC.php|url-status=live}}</ref> (worldwide rentals: $32.7 million)<ref name="dinod"/>
}}
'''''Three Days of the Condor''''' is a 1975 American [[spy thriller]] film directed by [[Sydney Pollack]] and starring [[Robert Redford]], [[Faye Dunaway]], [[Cliff Robertson]], and [[Max von Sydow]].<ref name="nytimes">{{cite web|title=Three Days of the Condor (1975) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/49657/Three-Days-of-the-Condor/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014020057/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/49657/Three-Days-of-the-Condor/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 14, 2013 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Lucia Bozzola |date=2013 |access-date=February 8, 2014}}</ref> The screenplay by [[Lorenzo Semple Jr.]] and [[David Rayfiel]] was based on the 1974 novel ''[[Six Days of the Condor]]'' by [[James Grady (author)|James Grady]].<ref name="nytimes"/>

Set mainly in New York City and Washington, D.C., the film is about a bookish [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] researcher who comes back from lunch one day to discover his co-workers murdered, then subsequently tries to avoid his own murder and outwit those responsible and understand their motives. The film was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing]]. Semple and Rayfiel received an [[Edgar Award]] from the [[Mystery Writers of America]] for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.<ref name="nytimes"/>