The Anderson Tapes (1971) on Netflix
Safe-cracker Duke Anderson leaves prison after ten years and takes up with his old girlfriend, Ingrid Everleigh, in her Upper East Side building. He plans to rob every apartment there.
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Plot summary
Safe-cracker Duke Anderson leaves prison after ten years and renews his relationship with his old girlfriend, Ingrid Everleigh, who has been kept by a wealthy man named Werner in an Upper East Side apartment block. Anderson decides to burgle the whole building in one sweep. He redeems a favor from Mafia boss Pat Angelo to finance the job and gathers a crew, among them the antique dealer Tommy Haskins and an old ex-con called Pop. What Anderson does not know is that his planning is being recorded.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Anderson Tapes (1971)
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- The Anderson Tapes was the first major film to focus on the pervasiveness of electronic surveillance, from security cameras in public places to hidden recording devices.
- Columbia Pictures was unhappy with the planned ending, in which Sean Connery's Anderson escapes to be pursued by police helicopters, fearing it would hurt sales to television, which generally required that bad deeds do not go unpunished.
- Sean Connery's performance as the likeable criminal Duke Anderson helped him break out of being typecast as James Bond and restored him to the ranks of top male actors in the United States.
- The Anderson Tapes was the first major motion picture for Christopher Walken and the last on-screen film appearance for Margaret Hamilton.
