Sean Connery stars in director Sidney Lumet's fast paced thriller centering on the burglary of a swank NYC apartment house. The gimmick being that the would be robbers, along with every move they make, are being recorded by the government. This explains the overuse of reel to reel sound effects. Connery is good as a third rate hood and Alan King makes one of his sporadic film appearances as a mafiosa, which is pretty much all he ever plays, but he's good at it so why mess with it. Dyan Cannon is in it too...she asks Connery to "ball." It is 1970! Christopher Walken, Garrett Morris, and a particularly swishy Martin Balsam also star. A classic.
Review of The Anderson Tapes
