The Anderson Tapes

The Anderson Tapes is a Technicolor 1971 American crime film in Panavision directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sean Connery and featuring Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, and comedian Alan King. The screenplay was written by Frank Pierson, based upon a bestselling 1970 novel of the same name by Lawrence Sanders. The film is scored by Quincy Jones and marks the feature film debut of Christopher Walken.

Burglar John Duke Anderson Sean Connery is released after ten years in prison. He renews his relationship with his old girlfriend, Ingrid Dyan Cannon. She lives in a highclass apartment blockEast 91st Street in New York City and Anderson, almost instantly, decides to burgle the entire building in a single sweep filling a furniture van with the proceeds. He gains financing from a nostalgic Mafia boss and gathers his fourman crew. Also included is an old excon drunk, Pop Stan Gottlieb, whom Anderson met in jail, and who is to play concierge while the real one is bound and gagged in the cellar.Less welcome is a man the Mafia foists onto Anderson the thuggish Socks Val Avery. Socks is a psychopath who has become a liability to the mob and, as part of the deal, Anderson must kill him in the course of the robbery. Anderson is not keen on this, since the operation is complicated enough, but is forced to go along. ........

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