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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jun 1, 2017 3:13:25 GMT
This film was a joy to watch. On the surface it seems like a comedic heist film with Sean Connery at his scornful and provocative best. He compares picking safe's to rape and pulls women's hairs. His monologue at the beginning of the film was very entertaining. Martin Balsam sexes it up in an intense performance as a homosexual. A young Christopher Walken struts around in his film debut. I am not a big fan of Dyan Cannon. So the film could have used a sexier heroine.
The film is also about the increasing use of surveillance in American society during the 60s and the 70s. Though the dark ending which seems to emphasize surveillance as one of the film's major themes was not that convincing.
Quincy Jones catchy title score gets the film off to a great start. The editing deserves special mention - the way they cut from the heist scenes to the hostages talking to the police was special. I think Spike Lee might have been inspired by The Anderson Tapes when he edited The Inside Man. This film is cruelly underrated at 6.4 on IMDB. My 9 rating should help it on its way up.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 2, 2017 16:36:15 GMT
It's not a classic, but it was entertaining, and it's also one of the very few movies I ever bought on the old VHS format (remember those?). The combination of Sean Connery and Sidney Lumet worked very well in many movies, it seems odd but worked very well, I especially liked The Hill 1965 Smart thefts was in the vogue for a time after The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 (since they only stole from the rich, so to say).
Back in the days before internet one a the few sources was Halliwell's Film Guide, and he was a bit of a nostalgic, and he's giving out points was very differnt from let's say Leonard Maltin, Halliwell gave point after historical value, not weather he liked a movie or not, one of the few positive reviews he gave to 1970's movie was The Anderson Tapes 1971, though complaining a bit about that the tapes are never properly explained. I don't think they actually were.
In a latter day small role as one of the two elderly ladies that is being robbed in the appartment building that was robbed was the wicked witch of the east (Margaret Hamilton).
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jun 2, 2017 17:01:49 GMT
It's not a classic, but it was entertaining, and it's also one of the very few movies I ever bought on the old VHS format (remember those?). The combination of Sean Connery and Sidney Lumet worked very well in many movies, it seems odd but worked very well, I especially liked The Hill 1965 Smart thefts was in the vogue for a time after The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 (since they only stole from the rich, so to say). Back in the days before internet one a the few sources was Halliwell's Film Guide, and he was a bit of a nostalgic, and he's giving out points was very differnt from let's say Leonard Maltin, Halliwell gave point after historical value, not weather he liked a movie or not, one of the few positive reviews he gave to 1970's movie was The Anderson Tapes 1971, though complaining a bit about that the tapes are never properly explained. I don't think they actually were. In a latter day small role as one of the two elderly ladies that is being robbed in the appartment building that was robbed was the wicked witch of the east (Margaret Hamilton). its not a classic. but its a damn good film.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jun 3, 2017 2:43:51 GMT
ok. i havent watched this one. i was checking CONNERY's filmography. he has acted in a lot of movies with interesting plots.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 3, 2017 21:53:13 GMT
Cool movie. Great soundtrack from Quincy Jones.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jun 4, 2017 3:15:05 GMT
Cool movie. Great soundtrack from Quincy Jones. the title score was very catchy allright.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 4, 2017 3:27:46 GMT
Cool movie. Great soundtrack from Quincy Jones. the title score was very catchy allright. You were bang on about Spike Lee who's a big Sidney Lumet fan; he said both 'The Anderson Tapes' and 'Dog Day Afternoon' (1975) were inspirational when making the heist movie 'Inside Man'.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jun 4, 2017 4:23:27 GMT
the title score was very catchy allright. You were bang on about Spike Lee who's a big Sidney Lumet fan; he said both 'The Anderson Tapes' and 'Dog Day Afternoon' (1975) were inspirational when making the heist movie 'Inside Man'. oh i see. just the long interviews with the hostages in THE INSIDE MAN made me post that.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 4, 2017 4:29:10 GMT
You were bang on about Spike Lee who's a big Sidney Lumet fan; he said both 'The Anderson Tapes' and 'Dog Day Afternoon' (1975) were inspirational when making the heist movie 'Inside Man'. oh i see. just the long interviews with the hostages in THE INSIDE MAN made me post that. Those guys were livin' in the city (they're livin' in the city).
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Post by geode on Aug 12, 2019 5:41:59 GMT
I think it qualifies as a classic film.
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Post by divtal on Aug 12, 2019 16:15:03 GMT
I really enjoyed The Anderson Tapes , but I haven't seen it since its theater release. I guess it's time for a reviewing.
Author Lawrence Sanders is one of my favorite writers. He could be very dark and "gritty," but he could also also approach crime with a lighter, more humorous touch. I saw the movie long before I discovered Sanders' novels. When I realized that the wrote The Anderson Tapes, I had to read it. I turned out to be a bit of a tedious read ... not usually the case with Sanders. This is a case where I think that the film outshines the book.
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Post by wmcclain on Aug 12, 2019 19:21:00 GMT
The Anderson Tapes (1971), directed by Sidney Lumet. Safe cracker Sean Connery is out after ten years in prison and immediately starts working on a big heist: he's going to clean out an entire rich apartment building over a holiday weekend. Christopher Walken (his first big film credit) handles the electronics and a very swishy Martin Balsam is his "bird-dog", the guy who finds and appraises the loot. What can go wrong? The Mob is funding the effort and the money comes with strings: they have to take a stupid hard man along on the job and kill him there. Connery has a prostitute girl friend (Dyan Cannon) in the building and her sugar daddy appears, knowing way too much. A kid in another apartment seems harmless because he is in a wheelchair; what about that ham radio set in the closet? The whole film has a gimmick: everyone is always being filmed and recorded by a slew of police agencies and private eyes. It doesn't matter: no one detects the heist because the watchers don't talk to each other and each is watching someone other than our gang. It's a small film but has that Lumet 1970s cops-and-crooks real city streets ambience. There is something about the light blue police uniform shirt of the era: the color of ineffectual authority. We're with the thieves on this one. The civilians who get smacked around deserve it. The other victims are having a good time, as in Dog Day Afternoon (1975). We want Connery (at least) to get away and agonize with him over the murder he must do. He tries some rhetorical justification for crime, but admits it's all dog-eat-dog. Comedian Alan King is the Mob financier, pretty menacing. Connery uses his real hair. The police do some impressive rope climbing work. Quincy Jones score, with computer beep-boop effects to go with the surveillance state message. ![](http://watershade.net/public/anderson-tapes.jpg)
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 12, 2019 19:58:38 GMT
I've seen it but it must have left a weak impression since I can remember next to nothing about it. Kind of like Woman of Straw.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 12, 2019 21:45:26 GMT
I saw this film at its first release and it has always stuck in my head through the decades even though I could never pronounce it a great or even good movie. Something about it really grabbed me, but it also seemed to be lacking That Certain Something. I had re-watch after 40-something years but it did not clear things up. Sean Connery is a career criminal who is just out of prison after a 10-year stretch. He moves in with hooker girlfriend (Dyan Cannon) who has been set-up in a luxury apartment house by one of her clients. Connery, for reasons that are not explained, decides to put together a team (which includes a So Young He Is Almost Unrecognizable Christopher Walkin) to rob all of the apartments at once of art work and collectables. He first recruits gay art expert Martin Balsam (lots of fag jokes at his expense). He doesn’t know that almost every move he makes is being videotaped by one government agency or another. Each surveillance is of a separate one of Connery’s contacts during the planning of the heist. The theme of uncontrolled, uncoordinated and illegal government spying gives the movie a satirical but also angry edge. A full third of the run-time is taken up with the commission of the robbery itself. Alan King is wonderful as the mobster who funds the caper. Still no resolution in my mind. Many, many moments that will stay with you, but those moments don’t seem to add up. Less than the sum of its parts.
Whatever happened to Dyan Cannon, anyway? She was supposed to be the Next Big Thing in the ‘70s but had all but vanished by mid-decade.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 12, 2019 21:58:27 GMT
ok. i havent watched this one. i was checking CONNERY's filmography. he has acted in a lot of movies with interesting plots. When Connery signed to play James Bond he feared type casting, so he got a paragraph in his contract that he could do at least one movie of his own choice between Bond films. Dr. No and From Russia With Love were released very close to each other. Between these two and Goldfinger, Connery starred in Woman Of Straw and Marnie. After Goldfinger, he took on The Hill before Thunderball. After Thunderball he appeared in A Fine Madness before going on to You Only Live Twice. After YOLT, he didn’t show up in another Bond (Diamonds Are Forever) until after Shalako, The Molly Maguires, and The Anderson Tapes. So, as you can see, his plan worked.
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