PLAY TB2K Movies -- 3 Days of the Condor (1975) -- Mr Smith goes to Washington (1939) -- 7 Days in May (1964)

[1911user]

Let's get political this weekend at the movies.

First up is a Robert Redford classic the Three Days of the Condor. It's a well done 1975 espionage thriller about the CIA, the USA, and the politics of oil.
This was timely considering the late 1973 Arab oil embargo, and US gas lines, due to the US support for Israel in the 1973 mideast war.

- A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/ <<<---- Movie Review and Info link

This movie is on archive.org, not youtube, so it can not be embedded. You'll have to click on the movie link below to watch it.

https://archive.org/details/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor <<<---- Movie Link (click to watch)
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Next up is Jimmy Stewart in the 1939 Frank Capra classic Mr. Smith goes to Washington.

- A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031679/ <<<---- Movie Review and Info link

This movie is also on archive.org, not youtube, so it can not be embedded. You'll have to click on the movie link below to watch it.

https://archive.org/details/MrSmithGoesToWashington1939480x360 <<<---- Movie Link (click to watch)
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Finally, let's have a military coup for a finale. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas star in the 1964 political thriller Seven Days in May.
Rod Sterling, of Twilight Zone fame, wrote the script.

- United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058576/ <<<------ Movie Review and Info link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOd5lGVXOZw <<<------- Direct movie link

 

[Loretta Van Riet]

Thank you 1911user for all your efforts to bring us varied FREE entertainment every week!

I remember being blown away by 3 Days of the Condor!

 

[Doomer Doug]

Three Days of the Condor was a great movie I saw when I got back from Europe in the US Army back in 1975. I will never forget the scene when Redford and Max Von Sydow are walking over the bridge and talking. Redford says that what happened was not moral etc and Von Sydow says "At our level there is no morality." You know what, that one sentence explains everything that has happened since 1975.
I watched Jimmy Stewart in "Mr. Smith goes to Washington year or so ago and was so depressed at how corrupt, venal and vile DC truly is, and how squalid our once great Republic now is. Seven Days in May is the military version of what the CIA is now doing to Trump.

 

[hiwall]

Thank you 1911user for all your efforts to bring us varied FREE entertainment every week!

Ditto

 

[Dennis Olson]

Fantastic lineup this week!

 

[psychgirl]

Thank you! It’s so hard to find free movies to watch and these are a great selection!

 

[bw]

Three Days of the Condor was based on the book Six Days of the Condor. In the book, it was about drugs being smuggled in crates that were thought to contain books for this small research group. It was a great disappointment to see how they turned it into a politically correct theme of oil instead. The film was good, but the book was better.

 

[tanstaafl]

Three Days of the Condor was based on the book Six Days of the Condor. In the book, it was about drugs being smuggled in crates that were thought to contain books for this small research group. It was a great disappointment to see how they turned it into a politically correct theme of oil instead. The film was good, but the book was better.

Oh yeah, the book was way better!

 

[AlfaMan]

Grabbing the popcorn now. WHERE did you find 7 days in May????? I've looked high and low for that movie, the only thing I found on Youtube was scenes. You got the whole thing.

THANK YOU! Awesome lineup this week.

 

[JF&P]

Robert Redford was so young once...LOL

Great flick and its great to watch again.

1911user we truly appreciate what you do here!!!!

 

[StarryEyedLad]

Between this thread and the Dance Party thread, the weekends here are a real treat to look forward to every week. I've never seen any of these. Thanks, 1911user!

 

[1911user]

Sunday bump. All 3 are good movies in their own special way. Each seemed appropriate given the current political climate.