![]() Turner traces the chillingly matter-of-fact killer to what was the Holiday Inn, now the Watson Hotel, 440 West 57th Street at 9th Avenue on the West Side, where he uses his particular skillset to intercept Joubert’s phone calls. On the shore of the island’s southern tip, alongside the Ward’s Island Footbridge, Higgins reluctantly reveals that the assassin is Joubert ( Max Von Sydow), a freelance hitman occasionally employed to do the agency’s dirty work. This is Wards Island, across the Harlem River from East Harlem. Convinced that the unseen Turner has a gun trained on him, Higgins is forced to exit the restaurant only to find himself unceremoniously bundled into a car and whisked off to a seemingly remote and deserted riverfront. ![]() Now able to recognise Turner’s remote controller, she confronts him at what was McCoy’s restaurant, and is now EPasta, 20 Maiden Lane, in the Financial District. Inveigling her way into the WTC, Kathy manages to find Higgins’ office and get a glimpse of the mysterious agent. In true Hitchcockian fashion, Kathy is eventually convinced by Turner’s unlikely story and agrees to help him. The terrified Kathy is forced at gunpoint to drive over the Brooklyn Bridge to her place in the basement at 9 Cranberry Street, Brooklyn Heights (which would make her a neighbour of Cher in 1987’s Moonstruck, who lived a few doors along at number 19).Īs Turner tries to figure out what the hell is going on, there develops an uneasy relationship which sees him both leaving Kathy tied up in the bathroom for long periods of time and enjoying apparently consensual sex with her. Now totally isolated, his desperation forces him to abduct a total stranger, Kathy Hale ( Faye Dunaway) from outside a clothing store on Broadway at 76th Street and demand to be taken to her home. Three Days Of The Condor filming location: Joe Turner barely escapes with his life: Alley behind the Ansonia, Upper West Side, New York The elaborate Ansonia itself is famous from 1992 thriller Single White Female and the 1975 film of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys. Higgins, whom Turner has never met, arranges a meeting to bring him in at the alleyway which runs behind the landmark Ansonia building, 2109 Broadway, between West 72nd and West 73rd Streets on the Upper West Side. Here the monoliths are used to represent the all-seeing, yet anonymous institutions of national security hiding in plain sight. The twin towers appear on the skyline of countless films but Three Days Of The Condor is one of the few, if not the only one, to film inside the towers. There’s a level of poignancy that couldn’t have been contemplated in 1975 when it turns out Higgins’ office is in One World Trade Center, North Tower, with its amazing view down to the Empire State Building. He finds Heidegger dead and only narrowly avoids a couple of spooks who are also sniffing around.Įven more recklessly, he sneaks back to his own Chelsea apartment, 485 West 22nd Street at 10th Avenue, only to be tipped off by an unwitting neighbour that “two friends are already waiting for him”.Īfter a couple of hours, as instructed, he rings the agency and speaks to a CIA controller called Higgins ( Cliff Robertson). ![]() ![]() In frustration, and ignoring advice, Turner goes to check on Heidegger at his Upper West Side apartment, 20 West 71st Street near Central Park West. One other member of the team, Heidegger, had been absent from the office at the time of the killings. It dominates 5th Avenue, opposite Central Park at 89th Street and features on-screen again in Men In Black and Tom Tykwer’s 2009 thriller The International. The huge white spiral, opened in 1959 and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, houses a vast collection of mainly non-representational modern art. His first instinct is to blend into the anonymity of the crowds at the nearby Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue. Three Days Of The Condor filming location: Joe Turner hides out in the art gallery: Guggenheim Museum, Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, New York ![]()
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