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Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes; And On The Set: Hill Street Blues

Rewatching a classic surveillance movie and remembering an American TV icon.

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Brett Alexander
Mar 23, 2025
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The Anderson Tapes
Sean Connery and Martin Balsam, Courtesy Turner Classic Movies

The Anderson Tapes

I’ve been rewatching a lot of 70s crime thrillers lately. Not sure why. Nostalgia maybe. In Sidney Lumet’s The Anderson Tapes (1971), streaming now on Watch TCM, Sean Connery plays a recently paroled thief assembling a team for a heist, oblivious to the fact that every step …

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