Faye Dunaway "The Extraordinary Seaman", a comedy adventure directed by John Frankenheimer and also starring David Niven that she shot right after "Bonnie and Clyde", was released to poor reviews and proved to be a commercial failure. Despite protests from her agent, Dunaway turned down a lot of high-profile projects in order to spend time with Mastroianni. In 1970, Dunaway took a supporting role as a favor to Arthur Penn in his western, "Little Big Man". In a rare comic role, Dunaway played the sexually frustrated wife of a minister who helps raise and seduce a boy raised by Native Americans, played
Faye Dunaway singer of the rock group The J. Geils Band. At this time, she felt "exhausted from the constant and intense pressures of the work", and decided to pull out of "The Wind and the Lion" (1975), in which she was to costar with Sean Connery, at the last moment to concentrate on her married life. Her next feature was Sydney Pollack's political thriller, "Three Days of the Condor" (1975). Her character was to be held hostage by a CIA analyst, played by Robert Redford, and Dunaway was required to display fear that she might be raped. However, she had difficulty