Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Sean Connery | ... | Robert 'Duke' Anderson | |
Dyan Cannon | ... | Ingrid Everly | |
Martin Balsam | ... | Tommy Haskins | |
Ralph Meeker | ... | Captain Delaney | |
Alan King | ... | Pat Angelo | |
Christopher Walken | ... | The Kid | |
Val Avery | ... | Rocco Parelli | |
Dick Anthony Williams | ... | Edward Spencer (as Dick Williams) | |
Garrett Morris | ... | Sergeant Everson | |
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Stan Gottlieb | ... | William 'Pop' Meyerhoff |
Paul Benjamin | ... | Jimmy | |
Anthony Holland | ... | Psychologist | |
Richard B. Shull | ... | Werner Gottlieb (as Richard B. Schull) | |
Conrad Bain | ... | Dr. Rubicoff | |
Margaret Hamilton | ... | Miss Kaler |
A thief (Duke Anderson) just released from ten years in jail, takes up with his old girlfriend (Ingrid) in her posh apartment. He makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is recorded on audio and video tape, although he is not the subject of any surveillance. Written by Zeke M. Towson <matajame@cwis.isu.edu>
It's taken me a while to track down a copy of 'The Anderson Tapes', but I'm sure glad I did. I was knocked out by this consistently interesting caper movie. Sean Connery, post-Bond, pre-Zardoz, plays Duke Anderson, a recently released criminal who decides to rob the luxury apartment block his high class hooker girlfriend (Dyan Cannon) resides in. He assembles a team which includes "The Kid" (an unbelievably young and cool Christopher Walken in his first major movie role), his flamboyant art loving buddy Tommy ('Psycho's Martin Balsam camping it up outrageously), the super cool Everson (Garrett Morris), and (against his will) Mafia goon Socks (Val Avery). Duke however doesn't realize that he, and just about everyone else involved in the plan, are under surveillance by a multitude of government agencies who are following their every move. 'The Anderson Tapes' is an entertaining and tough little thriller full of humour and originality, and with an almost 'Conversation'-like feel to it - a movie it predated by three years incidentally. While nowhere near as well known as Sidney Lumet's other Seventies crime dramas 'Serpico' and 'Dog Day Afternoon' it is equally as good. An extremely underrated movie that deserves a lot more attention.