The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 2
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Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 0
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This breathlessly paced high-tech thriller stars Sean Connery as Anderson, a career criminal who's just been released from his latest prison term. Seeking a quick financial turnover, Anderson uses mob funding to finance an ambitious robbery. With a gang of expert thieves, Anderson sets about to rob every wealthy tenant of a fancy East Side apartment building. What he doesn't know is that every move he makes is being monitored and taped by several law-enforcement agencies, who hope that Anderson
Jun 17, 1971 Limited
Jan 6, 2003
Columbia Pictures
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Cast
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Sean Connery
Duke Anderson -
Dyan Cannon
Ingrid Everleigh -
Martin Balsam
Haskins -
Alan King
Pat Angelo -
Ralph Meeker
Capt. Delaney -
Christopher Walken
The Kid -
Val Avery
Socks Parelli -
Conrad Bain
Dr. Rubicoff -
Paul Benjamin
Jimmy -
Hildy Brooks
Receptionist -
John Call
O'Leary -
Carmine Caridi
Detective A -
Sam Coppola
Private Detective -
Reid Cruickshanks
Judge -
Robert Dagny
Doctor -
Bradford English
TV Watcher -
Michael Fairman
Sgt. Claire -
Stanley Gottlieb
Pop -
Margaret Hamilton
Miss Kaler -
Anthony Holland
Psychologist -
Scott Jacoby
Jerry Bingham -
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Judith Lowry
Mrs. Hathaway -
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Garrett Morris
Everson -
Meg Myles
Mrs. Longene -
Michael Prince
Johnson -
Norman Rose
Mr. Longene -
Richard B. Shull
Werner Gottileb -
Max Showalter
Mr. Bingham -
Tom Signorelli
Sync Man -
Paula Trueman
Nurse -
Janet Ward
Mrs. Bingham -
Dick Anthony Williams
Spencer -
Jack Doroshow
Eric -
John Braden
Vanessi -
Michael B. Miller
1st Agent -
Frank Macetta
Papa Angelo -
Ralph Stantley
D'Medico -
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Starring Sean Connery, Sidney Lumet's thriler is one of the best caper films of the 1970s
Weak caper flick that's phony, superficial and unconvincing, that too slickly veers between comedy and suspense.
If this sort of thing bores you, you may want to give it a chance anyway because Christopher Walken ... makes his Hollywood film debut.
Good, old-fashioned Connery heist flick. Goes down smooth.
Sizzling story telling!
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My only disappointment with this movie was that it wasn't longer. I wanted to see how the characters would handle different situations between them, before the heist even began. Because once the heist begins, Lumet and Frank Pierson make each character we've come to believe in fade into the machinery they've chosen to be a part of. It's both the culminating bravery of the movie and the tragedy in it. Characterization is honored but ultimately subsumed by the filmmaking, which soon differs from the graceless destructiveness of monitors and camera only by the filmmakers' artistry and candor. This doesn't leave the viewer with a hollow feeling, but a hollowing one.