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1971

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Starring	Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Dyan Cannon, Ralph Meeker
Director	Sidney Lumet
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller

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The Anderson Tapes

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 will lead them to the Mob kingpins. Though the film may look like a comment on the Watergate break-in, The Anderson Tapes actually preceded that third-rate burglary by nearly two years. The Anderson Tapes boasts an impressive supporting cast, many of whom play wildly against type, including Alan King as an aging and infirm Mafia don.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Starring	Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Dyan Cannon, Ralph Meeker
Director	Sidney Lumet
Studio	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 34 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language	DVD: English
Subtitles	DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Released	Production year: 1971 To Rent: DVD: 06 Jan 2003

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- Superficially slick and fashionable crime thriller, marred by unnecessarily flashy direction, a failure to explain enough about the tapes, and a climax which oddly mixes bloodshed and farce.
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  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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  Solid techno-thriller
  
  The original Lawrence Sanders novel was clever because almost all of the narrative consisted of intercepts by various agencies as the protagonists planned and ... read more »
  
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  This is a caper movie
  
  For those of you old enough to remember, the 1960-70’s produced this sub-genre of action film that sort of poked fun at the action movie. With Sean Connery... read more »
  
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  Bold, muscular performance from Connery, brilliant direction from Lumet and a great script. Thrilling and worthwhile.
  
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  Absolute rubbish. I should have stopped watching it after five minutes as I felt inclined to do, but after reading the revues here I thought it couldn't be ... read more »
  
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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 ...