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Title: The Anderson Tapes (1971)
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| 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>
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Sean Connery plays a jail bird who's let out and decides to pull another heist with the help of a team of experienced crooks; little does he know the cops are monitoring everything.
What's so unique about this film by Sidney Lumet, in superb form as director, is that heist films rarely mount the tension by showing us the cops' side -- here it's like a ticking time bomb, we're just waiting for Connery and his crew to be arrested and we know that they don't know that the cops know (err...) and the result is pretty tense.
No fault found in the acting: Connery and a very young Christopher Walken (in his film debut) are great, particularly Walken who shows extensive range very early on. After seeing this I was reminded of his recent role in the "Stepford Wives" remake and had to wonder why he's resorting to such trash, because he's just as talented (almost, anyway) as De Niro and Pacino and the difference is he wasted a lot of this during the '80s and '90s by taking on small bits in horrible films. I mean, in 2003 he starred in KANGAROO JACK. C'mon!
Overall THE ANDERSON TAPES is a tense and unique crime thriller that, although very "70s-ish" is entertaining, if a bit outdated in terms of technology. I'm sure it will be remade some day, there's a lot of potential, however I doubt it'll ever come close to the original.
4/5