![]() ![]() ![]() Turner is almost a 70s cinematic equivalent of Edward Snowden, albeit an unintentional whistle-blower and someone is ill-equipped in dealing with having a target on his head. Turner’s discovery that the highly sensitive coding he unearthed (and which led to his office bloodbath) is a covert and illegal operation to seize Middle Eastern oil fields and prevent a State-side fuel shortage, is uncomfortably close to a modern geopolitical landscape. The paranoia and deceit infused throughout the film is certainly still prevalent today, particularly given the current fragile political climate around the world and the underhanded nature of American imperialism. Robert Redford in Three Days of Condorįorced to essentially kidnap an unwitting civilian (Faye Dunaway) and hide out in her apartment while a hitman tracks him down, thus begins a treacherous and unpredictable quest for the protagonist as he attempts to wade through the murky inner politics of the intelligence service that has betrayed him. Employed to decipher any possible hidden messages in printed material churned out by sources from around world, Redford’s Joe Turner goes on the run when his whole team are butchered at the office. Of course, you’ll need to initially swallow leading man Redford as a nebbish low level CIA analyst, but this is the movies after all. Using the well-traversed machination of an ordinary guy wrapped up in extraordinary circumstances – and imbuing it with that post-Watergate malaise and creeping paranoia – Three Days of the Condor belongs with the similarly-styled Warren Beatty-headliner The Parallax View as a classic of the subgenre.
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I’ll be periodically choosing other great episodes from the series,but these were the ones I thought would be really interesting to cover right now. And finally Rose’s Last Summerstarring Mary Astor since I’m on a Mary Astor kick what with working on my Aldrich series and Hush…Hush Sweet Charlotte post that’s giving me an infarction, it’s so detailed, yet I don’t know how to write any other way. Hawk starring Jo Van Fleet and John Carradine, The Premature Burial starring Sidney Blackmer (the piercing Roman Casstavette in Rosemary’s Baby) and Boris himself as Dr. ![]() This time I will be blogging about a few more interesting tales such as The Ordeal of Dr Cordell starring Robert Vaughn. I recently covered episodes like The Hungry Glass, The Hollow Watcher, The Grim Reaper, The Cheaters, The Incredible Doktor Markesan and Pigeons From Hell. When I first started blogging on The Last Drive In, I chose one of my most beloved memories, a thing of nostalgia for me, and what I consider to be one of the greatest television programs that contained not only the classic crime mystery drama, but Gothic horrors based on some of the most prolific writers of these genres back then, such as Cornell Woolrich, Robert Bloch and August Derleth. |
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