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The Anderson Tapes
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| The Anderson Tapes | |
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| Directed by | Sidney Lumet |
| Produced by | Robert Weitman |
| Written by | Frank Pierson |
| Starring | Sean Connery Dyan Cannon Martin Balsam |
| Music by | Quincy Jones |
| Cinematography | Arthur J. Ornitz |
| Editing by | Joanne Burke |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1971 |
| Running time | 95 min. |
| IMDb profile | |
The Anderson Tapes is a 1971 crime film. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and stars Sean Connery. The screenplay was written by Frank Pierson, based upon the best-selling 1970 novel of the same name by Lawrence Sanders. The film is distinctively scored by Quincy Jones.
A remake has been announced [1].
A burglar, John "Duke" Anderson, is released after ten years in jail. He renews his relationship with his old girlfriend, Ingrid (Dyan Cannon). She lives in a high-class apartment block (1 East 91st Street) and Anderson, almost instantly, decides to burglarize the entire building in a single sweep - filling a furniture van with the proceeds. He gains financing from a nostalgic Mafiosi boss and gathers his four-man crew, plus an extra man the mafia foist on him (the thuggish "Socks") and an old ex-con drunk, "Pop", to play concierge.
However Anderson has entered a world of pervasive surveillance - the agents, cameras, bugs, and tracking devices of numerous public and private agencies see almost the entire operation from the earliest planning to the execution. As Anderson advances the scheme he moves from the surveillance of one group to another as locations or individuals change. Yet, because the various federal, state and city agencies doing the surveillance are all after different things, none of them are able to "connect the dots" and anticipate the robbery.
The robbery proceeds over a Labor Day weekend. The crew cut phones and alarms, move up through the building and gather the residents, then rob each apartment. Despite all the observation the information is dislocated and it is not until a young resident raises the alarm over his ham radio set (via Hawaii, Wichita Falls and Portland, Maine) that law enforcement acts. As the oblivious criminals work, the police array an enormous amount of force outside to prevent their escape and send a team in via a neighbouring rooftop.
Sean Connery's performance as the likeable criminal Duke Anderson was instrumental in his break out from being stereotyped as James Bond.
The film was also prescient in its focus on the pervasiveness of electronic surveillance, a theme that would become a movie staple following the Watergate scandal a few years later.
- Sean Connery - John Anderson
- Dyan Cannon - Ingrid
- Martin Balsam - Tommy Haskins
- Ralph Meeker - Captain Delaney
- Alan King - Pat Angelo
- Christopher Walken - The Kid
- Val Avery - "Socks" Parelli
- Garrett Morris - Police sergeant.
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