Amazon.com Essentials:
Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack continued their longtime
collaboration (the actor and director have worked together on Jeremiah Johnson,
The Way We
Were, The
Electric Horseman, and Out of Africa,
among other films) with this taut spy drama. Redford plays a reader
for U.S. intelligence who becomes a hunted man after he is not among
the victims of a mass murder of his colleagues. Faye Dunaway does
solid work as the frightened and mystified woman whom he forces to
conceal him, and Max von Sydow is appropriately cool as a professional
assassin. That same, sustained tone of danger and expectation that
made Pollack's The
Firm so much fun can be found in this 1975 thriller, albeit
with an appropriate dose of post-Watergate paranoia. --Tom
Keogh
