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Three Days of the Condor

1975 · directed by Sydney Pollack · 117 min
23,188 feet · Prominence
1,293rd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw63

Lifetime worldwide gross $42m, re-releases included; about $255m in 2026 money.

Rank1,357 of 11,051In 19757 of 43

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise77

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics76 baseAwards15 signal → +2 lift

Oscars1 nominated Film Editing
Golden Globes1 nominated Lead acting
How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy42

Judged directly: Paranoid-thriller benchmark, still cited.

Verdict42 of 100IMDb7.4 from 70kWikipedia35k views a monthAge51 years

Scored beside it · 1,585 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 63 praise 77 legacy 42averages 61, placing it at23,188 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Robert Redford20,131 ftFaye Dunaway19,327 ftMax von Sydow18,857 ftCliff Robertson18,295 ftSydney Pollack18,262 ft