Stars: Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Dyan Cannon, Ralph Meeker

Director: Sidney Lumet

Summary: Fast-paced film about an ex-convict who schemes to rob a luxury apartment complex unaware that he is under surveillance.

THE ANDERSON TAPES, directed by Sidney Lumet, stars Sean Connery as a man who has just been released from a lengthy prison sentence. He quickly recalls his criminal past when he plots to rob every apartment in an large, wealthy building. What he does not suspect is that the entire building is rigged with video cameras.

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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-stir 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 Christopher 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 realise his mafia backers are only supporting him because they feel nostalgic for the days before they were boring businessmen and that the whole setup 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 gutsy young 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, this hasn't dated a bit: it's wry without being jokey and suspenseful without undue contrivance.

On the DVDThe Anderson Tapesoffers a nice anamorphic transfer, a few trailers and various foreign language options. --Kim Newman

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Subtitles:	Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1971
Release Date:	January 6, 2003
Runtime:	94 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R 10131
Keywords:	Action, Anderson, Tapes, General, Wide, Screen, Adventure
Genre:	Action/Adventure