Number #475: Sean Connery Week: The Anderson Tapes

Howdy folks and welcome back to Sean Connery Week Day 2.  This next movie may have slipped by some of the younger fans as the language is a bit racy, the action a bit rough and a product of the early seventies.  Connery rarely gets a meat and potatoes villain role that you cannot help but empathize with.   This is The Anderson Tapes.

Sean Connery for Hair Club for Men

The Kid: America, man!  You know, it's so beautiful I wanta spoil it.








20 years of his life, John "Duke" Anderson (Sean Connery of From Russia with Love, Diamonds Are Forever, The Terrorists, Murder on the Orient Express, A Bridge Too Far, The Untouchables and The Hunt for Red October) is finally being released after paying his dues for his safe cracking days.  He openly mocks the prison official/ councilor and points out the injustice of society on robber barons, marriage and advertisement found a grife in the system but the guy that steals the magazine honoring these schmucks is a criminal.  

Out and about in New York City connecting back with his estranged girlfriend Ingrid (Dyan Cannon of Shamus, Heaven Can Wait, Coast to Coast, Deathtrap, Author! Author! and Out to Sea) who lives in a posh high rise on 91st Street in Manhattan.  Duke goes to a Mafia don for financing with Angelo (Alan King of Hit the Deck, Miracle in the Rain, Bye Bye Braverman, Lovesick, Memories of Me and Casino) to prep his own four man team to pull a worthy heist and having enough funds to live on while they get their gear together.

Hello Dolly!

However Anderson gets another price tag attached to a fourth man into his crew the thuggish scumbag called Socks (Val Avery of Love and Bullets, The Amityville Horror, Quincy M.E., Sharky's Machine, The Sting II, Easy Money and Renegade) which Anderson is less than thrilled to add in his crew but deals with it.  Anderson takes in how much surveillance from the various alphabet federal agencies, from cameras, bugs and tracking devices seem to originate from private and public agencies viewing his entire plan of operation.

The plan is executed during Labor Day weekend disguised as Mayflower moving crew, severed the phone and alarm wires as they move up each floor, gathering all the residents as they went and moving them along as they rob each apartment.

Can the cops stop our second-story men in time?  What could possibly be the swag they are after that is worth this much effort?

Quick few observations and facts about this movie now.   This is the first movie Connery dropped the toupee since the last Bond film.  This was also Christopher Walken's debut film at the age of 28 when I thought he was ten years younger.  That man had a baby face.    Spot the commander of the S.W.A.T. team is as original SNL cast member Garrett Morris, and he took this so seriously that he spent a month learning muzzle discipline, team building and combat insertions.  Pretty cool.

Tell me he has stop farting in here.