The Anderson Tapes
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Actor: Dyan Cannon, Hildy Brooks, Martin Balsam, Paul Benjamin, Sean ConneryCinematographer: Arthur Ornitz
Composer: Quincy Jones
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-23
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Anderson Tapes
Movie Review: A CLASSIC HEIST FINALLY SAFECRAKED FROM SONY'S VAULT
Summary: 5 Stars
I've watched this flick no less than 20 times in my life and just love the way Sidney Lumet directed this killer cast and captured New York in the 70's along with the jazz of Quincy Jones' soundtrack... it's just a hip flick! The surveillance and paranoia of the "tapes" is indicative of the 70's Watergate scandal and captures that moment in time-- and still relevant on some levels today. I'm glad to see it finally came out on DVD... also recommend reading Lawrence Sanders original book which the movie was based on and Sanders' seminal style in rendering this Pulpish tale.
Summary of The Anderson Tapes
A habitual criminal, looking for a big score immediately upon leaving prison, goes to the syndicate seeking funds for a massive robbery. He intends to ransack a posh East Side New York apartment building. Rounding up a gang of top-flight thieves, he proceeds to plan and carry out his caper unaware that he is being taped.An early example of the techno-thriller, The Anderson Tapes--sharply directed by Sidney Lumet from the novel by Lawrence Sanders--follows just-out-of-jail Duke Anderson (a balding Sean Connery) as he plots the heist of an entire New York apartment building, enlisting a crew that includes Martin Balsam as a vintage 1971 gay stereotype and a very young Christoper Walken in perhaps the first of his jittery crook roles. The gimmick is that Anderson has been out of circulation so long that he doesn't realizse his mafia backers are only supporting him because they feel nostalgic for the days before they were boring businessmen and that the whole set-up is monitored by a criss-crossing selection of government and private agencies who don't care enough to thwart the robbery, which instead becomes unglued thanks to a spunky handicapped kid-cum-radio ham. With a cool Quincy Jones score, very tight editing, a lot of spot-on cameo performances from the likes of Ralph Meeker as a patient cop, The Anderson Tapes hasn't dated a bit: it's wry without being jokey and suspenseful without feeling contrived. --Kim Newman
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