Joubert's phone switches from dial to push button
When Turner pushes Atwood into his chair, the lid on the console stereo slams shut. The lid is then open again in two subsequent shots and closed after that.
The amount of stubble Turner has changes during the discussion about the oil fields near the end.
Near the end when Turner confronts Atwood, his gun's hammer goes back and forth between cocked and not, and is not cocked when Jobert asks Turner to place his thumb in front of the hammer, which is then cocked.
Right after he arrives for the second time at Kathy's apartment, Condor hangs up the phone and sets a revolver on the counter. He only has an automatic 45 at this point.
A character is listed in the final credits as "Ordinance Man". This is misspelled. A person who deals with arms and ammunition deals in "ordnance". An ordinance man would be dealing with city regulations.
The NYPD Lieutenant who is interviewed in the alley by a TV crew is incorrectly listed in the credits as "Alice Lieutenant". This is probably a typo of "Police Lieutenant".
The film makers are not responsible for IMDB's credits listings.
The film makers are not responsible for IMDB's credits listings.
While Kathy is on the phone with her boyfriend, Turner is instructing her what to say. He tells her to say there's a problem with the generator on her car. She drives a 1970 Ford Bronco. In 1960, all modern vehicles started switching from generators to alternators.
The last Marine who opens the door for Higgins at Five Continents Imports has the rank of sergeant, but he looks far too old for such a low rank, instead he seems to be old enough to be retired. Also, his hair is much too long, even for the mid-70's. . .
Hansford Rowe's name is misspelled in the end credits as "Rolle".
Turner tells the counter man that Van Gogh never sold a painting in his life. Van Gogh sold one painting in his life, The Red Vineyard.
In fact, van Gogh sold at least two paintings in his lifetime, The Red Vineyard and a self portrait, and also some drawings, to friends and family. This in no way mitigates the tragedy of his life.
In fact, van Gogh sold at least two paintings in his lifetime, The Red Vineyard and a self portrait, and also some drawings, to friends and family. This in no way mitigates the tragedy of his life.
Any ballistics analysis of the shootings in the alley would show that Sam was not shot by the "assailant" (Turner) who shot the CIA assassin. However, ballistics analysis is irrelevant because the event is covered up rather than investigated.
When Turner gets the phone number from the mailman with no area code, he asks the operator for DC's area code-202. Then calling it, he gets the CIA. The CIA is in Langley, VA, outside of DC and is area code 703. Not only would Turner know the CIA is in Langley, when he dialed the number with a 202 area code, it shouldn't have gone through.
Turner's 202 call would have gone through to the CIA as dialed. Up until 1990, it was possible to dial any number in the Washington DC metro local calling area which included southern Maryland (301) and northern Virginia (703) via long-distance services by dialing area code 202 instead of the home area code. Turner's 202 call would have been routed automatically to the corresponding 703 number in Virginia by the telephone company.
Turner's 202 call would have gone through to the CIA as dialed. Up until 1990, it was possible to dial any number in the Washington DC metro local calling area which included southern Maryland (301) and northern Virginia (703) via long-distance services by dialing area code 202 instead of the home area code. Turner's 202 call would have been routed automatically to the corresponding 703 number in Virginia by the telephone company.
It's hard to believe that Turner (Condor) wouldn't know the area code for Washington, DC.
It's hard to believe that he'd remember it with all the chaos going on around him. Even if he did know it, he wanted to double check with the operator.
It's hard to believe that he'd remember it with all the chaos going on around him. Even if he did know it, he wanted to double check with the operator.
When Turner goes through the basement records storage room to avoid the rain on his way to obtain sandwiches for his co-workers, he leaves both the door to the room and the door to the alley open. Not only should the storage room door have been locked with a controlled key, but anyone with a secret or higher security clearance would have known to close the 2 doors and lock them after passing through. He did, however, appear to close the exterior metal gate. In any event, he should have known, as well as the receptionist, that security protocol would require him to come and go via the monitored front door. In fact, Turner himself could have been implicated in the murders since he left those 2 doors open, with no evidence that the metal gate had locked behind him when he left.
He didn't think there was much security risk at the "Bookworm" department, and implicating him for those killings would have to start with evidence he went through those doors at the time of - evidence from somebody alive.
He didn't think there was much security risk at the "Bookworm" department, and implicating him for those killings would have to start with evidence he went through those doors at the time of - evidence from somebody alive.
In the CIA office scene where various clocks are displaying the time zone, Winnipeg is misspelled as Winipeg.
When the Condor is in Kathy's apartment, they watch a news
report about the shooting in the alley. The reporter has a channel 7 microphone and identifies himself as being with Eyewitness News, the name of WABC-TV's news broadcast for decades. When the report is over, we see the logo for channel 9 instead of channel 7.
When Condor has Higgins in the back of the Bronco he pulls the trigger down all the way several times on the gun.
When Turner and Cathy arrive at her apartment for the first time, cars on both sides of the street are parked facing the same direction.
When Turner leaves Atwood's house you can see a figure moving about through the glass door behind him.
When the Condor is getting soaked by rain on his way to lunch, everyone immediately around him has umbrellas. There is a man in the distance to the right of the police officer, obviously oblivious to the rain and walks as if he is beyond the reach of the rain machines. There is no cop standing in the rain and no oblivious man, either.
During the opening credits Joe Turner/Condor is biking downtown through the West Village (past the old Limelight Cafe at 91 7th Ave South). When he arrives at his destination, he's at 55 East 77th St in Lenox Hill, on the opposite side of Manhattan and riding north instead of south.
Early in the film some packages are delivered to the office in
which Redford works. The security guard counts 5 of them, and says "Roger, fiver." The NATO phonetic alphabet uses "niner" for 9 in order to differentiate the sound from "fife" for 5. No retired military man, as the guard is supposed to be, should say "fiver."
Firearms protocol: (01:24:33) Turner has his pistol on Higgins in the back of the Bronco. His finger is inside the trigger guard and he even squeezes the trigger a few times. It's a good thing the pistol wasn't cocked, or there'd be a mess in Kathy's back seat.