The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Country: US
Technical: col 99m
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Dyan Cannon, Ralph Meeker, Christopher Walken
Synopsis:
A thief out of prison after taking a rap for the Mob gets finance for his next caper, to steal from an entire apartment building, but he must 'off' one of theirs during the heist.
Review:
Offbeat crime caper with an inaudible dialogue track and sharply drawn but undeveloped characters it is hard to warm to. Its abject cynicism - the irony being that the operation is doomed from the start, as the FBI are following the Connery character's every move because of his links with the Mob - alienated most audiences not already put off by the tricksy electronic punctuation marks on the soundtrack. Reviewed today, it can be seen as part of the surveillance culture that would dominate seventies politics and thriller cinema, its ambivalent tone of comedy and violence still making it quirkily engaging.
Country: US
Technical: col 99m
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Dyan Cannon, Ralph Meeker, Christopher Walken
Synopsis:
A thief out of prison after taking a rap for the Mob gets finance for his next caper, to steal from an entire apartment building, but he must 'off' one of theirs during the heist.
Review:
Offbeat crime caper with an inaudible dialogue track and sharply drawn but undeveloped characters it is hard to warm to. Its abject cynicism - the irony being that the operation is doomed from the start, as the FBI are following the Connery character's every move because of his links with the Mob - alienated most audiences not already put off by the tricksy electronic punctuation marks on the soundtrack. Reviewed today, it can be seen as part of the surveillance culture that would dominate seventies politics and thriller cinema, its ambivalent tone of comedy and violence still making it quirkily engaging.
Country: US
Technical: col 99m
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Dyan Cannon, Ralph Meeker, Christopher Walken
Synopsis:
A thief out of prison after taking a rap for the Mob gets finance for his next caper, to steal from an entire apartment building, but he must 'off' one of theirs during the heist.
Review:
Offbeat crime caper with an inaudible dialogue track and sharply drawn but undeveloped characters it is hard to warm to. Its abject cynicism - the irony being that the operation is doomed from the start, as the FBI are following the Connery character's every move because of his links with the Mob - alienated most audiences not already put off by the tricksy electronic punctuation marks on the soundtrack. Reviewed today, it can be seen as part of the surveillance culture that would dominate seventies politics and thriller cinema, its ambivalent tone of comedy and violence still making it quirkily engaging.