Yellow is the color of my true love's hair

I assume I'm not the first one ever who noticed this but I must say that young Robert Redford is simply gorgeous. I've watched a couple of his earlier films, e.g. Buffalo Bill and the Sundance Kid, or The Sting (both with Paul Newman), and yesterday I also watched 3 Days of the Condor, and he's sooo wow. I don't know why but I realized I love watching 1970s movies. They feel so classic (or even classy) for me. You know, all these big stars like Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Liz Taylor, Sophia Loren. Men who are always so manly and women who are always so womanly. Back then the word movie had a reputation, films had a real plot, and the actors were genuine. Not like today, when such productions can get financial support as Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller comedies, not to mention Dolph Lundgren category Z action movies. Those were the days!
Okay, now I'm gonna give some kind of a review of this movie to try to convince you why to watch it (if the name Redford isn't enough). The opening scene is set in the American Literary Historical Society. A couple of bookworms are reading books and copying them by mimeographs. Joe Turner (Redford) is one of them. He rides a bike, wears glasses, and gives weather forecasts just for fun. He knows all kinds of strange things from books. On this particular day he goes out for lunch and by the time he gets back to the office, all his colleagues have been murdered. It turns out that the literary society is an alias for a special section of CIA. Their job is to read all kinds of books, process them, and help the CIA by finding new tricks, theories, anything useful. (Actually, it sounds like a job I'd be glad to do. Read a lot of books and get paid for it.)
Turner, alias the Condor, is really upset and confused. As he's not a professional CIA agent, he doesn't really know where to go, what to do. He has a phone number and that's all. The events become even more complicated when the person the CIA sends to take him in is murdered and the Condor becomes the suspect.

I don't want to spoil the whole story, just let me hint at the part of the plot that I really really like. As our hero can trust no one and has nowhere to go, he kidnaps a woman he meets accidentally. Kathy Bale is a quite interesting character for me. She's a photographer, and her home looks like what I imagine contemporary intellectual homes to be (compare for example with the movie Blowup). At first she is scared of the seemingly violent Condor but she gradually starts to trust him. They both realize that they have something in common. You know, this is what I'm talking about. A man that can make a woman a woman, and a woman who can make a man a man. Maybe it's all stupid and tautology for you but I love it in a film. And it all feels so natural. And I must add that Faye Dunaway is gorgeoues as well. (I also really liked the Hungarian dubs, Szakácsi Sándor and Fehér Anna).
In the future I'm planning to watch Barefoot in the Park and The Horse Whisperer (and maybe additional Redford movies as well). If you want to see him in this man-woman angle I also recommend Out of Africa with Meryl Streep.

P.S. I'd also like to write about Clint Eastwood movies, especially those directed by him. I started with Million Dollar Baby and got interested in them.