Robert Redford stars in this stellar suspense flick as a bookish, New York researcher who's got one of the coolest jobs I've ever heard of -- he reads novels and other published material and searches them for references to the CIA. He's come up with a scenario of an "agency inside the agency." His boss doesn't buy it, but he dutifully sends it to Washington for review. The problem? It's true.
So in a brutal hit, everyone at the research office is eliminated. Redford survives by a fluke -- he's out picking up lunch at the time. Now he's on the run, and he's not even sure why all these people are trying to kill him.
The tension never lets up, and Redford's character must survive assassination attempt after assassination attempt, all the while realizing that there's no one, not even his friends, that he can trust. Forced to turn to a stranger for help, he kidnaps a girl out of a shop (Faye Dunaway, who's less annoying than normal). But she doesn't believe him either.
A cat-and-mouse game where the mouse is very small but very smart and all the cat have great big guns -- Condor has a twisty plot reminiscent of Hitchcock, a great Cold War vibe and is the granddaddy of dozens of conspiracy flicks.
You might have to hunt for it, but it would be a good add to your Netflix list.
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