One of the best spy thriller movies ever is on TV tonight

An absolute classic, the film is also available to stream at home now.

Released in 1975 and directed by Sydney Pollack (The Firm), the film stars the late and great Robert Redford as Joe Turner, a quiet CIA codebreaker.

On a seemingly ordinary day, Joe walks into his workplace and finds that all of his coworkers have been killed.

Horrified, he flees the scene and tries to tell his supervisors about the tragedy, only to learn that CIA higher-ups were involved in the murders.

"With no one to trust, and a merciless hit man (Max von Sydow, The Exorcist) close on his tail, Joe must somehow survive long enough to figure out why his own agency wants him dead," the plot synopsis adds.

Based on the James Grady novel Six Days of the Condor, Three Days of the Condor also stars Faye Dunaway as a woman Joe meets while on the run.

Tapping into the same post-Watergate paranoia that also inspired other classic thrillers like Blow Out, The Conversation, and The Parallax View, the Redford movie was a hit at the box office and with critics.

The movie was praised for the actor's likeable lead performance, the chemistry between him and Dunaway, and the tense and twisty story.

Three Days of the Condor is still highly regarded to this day, and it even got a TV show remake in 2018 that ran for two seasons.

The spy thriller classic is airing on TV tonight on the channel Legend at 9pm. It's also currently available to stream on the service NOW.

Here are the other movies on TV tonight:

Midnight Run - Film4 - 9pm

The Robert De Niro-led action comedy we recommended last week.

Chaplin - Sky Arts - 9pm

Robert Downey Jr is Charlie Chaplin in this well-liked '90s biopic.

Expend4bles - ITV4 - 9pm

The fourth entry in the Jason Statham/Sylvester Stallone-led action franchise.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - Comedy Central - 9pm

'Groovy, baby!'

The Miracle Club - BBC Four - 9pm

The 2023 Irish comedy-drama sees Laura Linney, Kathy Bates and Maggie Smith play a group of working-class women from 1960s Dublin who go on a pilgrimage to Lourdes.

Tea with Mussolini - BBC Four - 10.55pm

A semi-autobiographical comedy-drama, telling the story of a young Italian boy's upbringing by a circle of American and British women before and during WWII.

Out of the Furnace - Legend Xtra - 11pm

This underrated, star-studded crime thriller sees Christian Bale and Casey Affleck play brothers who have fallen on hard times and wind up on the wrong side of a vicious crime lord (Woody Harrelson).

The Replacement Killers - Legend - 11.30pm

Chow Yun-fat and Mira Sorvino star in this decent ’90s action thriller set in Los Angeles, which follows an emotionally disillusioned assassin who is forced to settle a violent vendetta for a ruthless crime boss.

Sightseers - Film4 - 11.35pm

This excellent British black comedy follows a couple (writers Alice Lowe and Steve Oram) whose dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.

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