The Anderson Tapes

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The Anderson Tapes is a 1971 crime thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, notable for its early exploration of electronic surveillance as it follows a recently released ex-con planning a high-tech heist in New York City.

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Label Occurrences
The Anderson Tapes canonical 9
The Anderson Tapes (novel) 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf crime film
film
thriller film
authorOfSourceWork Lawrence Sanders
basedOn The Anderson Tapes self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Anderson Tapes (novel)
character Duke Anderson
cinematographyBy Arthur J. Ornitz
colorProcess color
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Sidney Lumet
distributor Columbia Pictures
editedBy Richard Marks
era New Hollywood
featuresFilmDebutOf Christopher Walken
filmingLocation New York City
genre crime
thriller
hasHeistType apartment building robbery
hasTheme government surveillance
organized crime
privacy
language English
mainSubject electronic surveillance
heist
medium feature film
musicBy Quincy Jones
narrativeDevice multiple forms of electronic surveillance
narrativeLocation New York City
notableFor early cinematic exploration of electronic surveillance
originalLanguage English
portrays Sean Connery as Duke Anderson
producer Robert M. Weitman
productionCompany Columbia Pictures
protagonistOccupation ex-convict
publicationYearOfSourceWork 1969
1970
releaseDate 1971-06-17
releaseYear 1971
runtimeMinutes 99
screenwriter Frank Pierson
setIn Manhattan
Upper East Side
settingTime contemporary early 1970s
starring Alan King
Christopher Walken
Dyan Cannon
Martin Balsam
Ralph Meeker
Sean Connery

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

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- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: The Anderson Tapes
Description of subject: The Anderson Tapes is a 1971 crime thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, notable for its early exploration of electronic surveillance as it follows a recently released ex-con planning a high-tech heist in New York City.

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Christopher Walken notableWork The Anderson Tapes
Margaret Hamilton appearedIn The Anderson Tapes
The Anderson Tapes basedOn The Anderson Tapes self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Anderson Tapes (novel)
Rastar Productions notableWork The Anderson Tapes
Ray Stark notableWork The Anderson Tapes
Arthur J. Ornitz notableWork The Anderson Tapes
Conrad Bain appearedIn The Anderson Tapes
Lawrence Sanders notableWork The Anderson Tapes
Alan King notableWork The Anderson Tapes
Duke Anderson appearsIn The Anderson Tapes