Blu-ray Review The Anderson Tapes Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[Matt Hough]

The Anderson Tapes is a great director-star combo makes for a flawed but nevertheless entertaining caper movie.



The Anderson Tapes (1971)



Released: 01 Sep 1971
Rated: GP
Runtime: 99 min




Director: Sidney Lumet
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller



Cast: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam
Writer(s): Lawrence Sanders, Frank Pierson



Plot: After ten years in prison to protect a mafia family, Duke Anderson is released and he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper.



IMDB rating: 6.4
MetaScore: 61





Disc Information



Studio: Sony
Distributed By: Kino Lorber
Video Resolution: 1080P/AVC



Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English 2.0 DTS-HDMA...

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[mskaye]

I really enjoyed this film after not seeing it for like 30 yrs. Typical great fluid, vibrant, vital Lumet direction. Very 1970s - in every way imaginable from photography to tone to social commentary. Connery and Lumet were excellent together in this, the 2nd of the 4 films they made together. Great casting too.

 

[David_B_K]

Great review. I haven't seen this movie since seeing it on its original theatrical run. I need to get this Blu-ray.

 

[Matt Hough]

Great review. I haven't seen this movie since seeing it on its original theatrical run. I need to get this Blu-ray.

I was in exactly the same boat. I saw it on original release and remembered liking it though not with any great images in my mind, and I had never seen it since. I was happy to be reacquainted with it.

 

[Flashgear]

Thank you Matt for your usual thorough and detailed review! You've answered every possible question that might have arisen, and refreshed my own dim memories of seeing this as an underage kid sneaking in to see it in 1971. I haven't seen it since, definitely a fascinating artifact of the nascent soon-to-be Watergate era and surveillance state (I'd love to see the Fed warrant authorizing the pervasive IRS electronic bugging of an entire apartment building, or was it just for one delinquent taxpayer occupant? Ha, ha!) but will get the new KL Blu at the first opportunity!

 

[RolandL]

In Cinerama? I guess only at the Fargo Cinema-70 theatre - https://incinerama.com/cinema-70.htm

 

[PatrickDA]

Please buy it if you didn't get the Indicator release or even if you did!!

 

[Robert Crawford]

Please buy it if you didn't get the Indicator release or even if you did!!

Why? I already bought it twice on Blu-ray and my second purchase was the 2020 Indicator release with the same Glenn Kenny audio commentary.

 

[PatrickDA]

Why? I already bought it twice on Blu-ray and my second purchase was the 2020 Indicator release with the same Glenn Kenny audio commentary.

Well, you don't have to, but if others do, I think they should.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Well, you don't have to, but if others do, I think they should.

You still haven't stated a reason why a person that has the Indicator Blu-ray should buy this Kino Blu-ray?

 

[PatrickDA]

You still haven't stated a reason why a person that has the Indicator Blu-ray should buy this Kino Blu-ray?

I want it to sell well so Kino will re-release other titles with better encodes and higher bit-rates.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I want it to sell well so Kino will re-release other titles with better encodes and higher bit-rates.

Well, that's fine for you, but I don't like somebody else telling me how to spend my monies. It's none of their business and the same applies to me in regard to you or anyone else's spending.