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Released
1971 · FILM

The Anderson Tapes

The Crime of the Century!

Directed by
Runtime
99 min
ActionCrimeThriller

Synopsis

Duke Anderson, a thief recently released from a ten-year prison sentence, reconnects with his former girlfriend in her upscale apartment complex and begins plotting to rob the entire building. Unaware that his actions are being captured on both audio and video, he is not the intended target of the surveillance.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Joanne BurkeShot by Arthur J OrnitzScored by Quincy JonesDesigned by Ben Kasazkow

Box Office

1971 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$5.0M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$5.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der Anderson Clande
  • Der Anderson-Clande
  • Supergolpe en Manhattanes
  • Le Dossier Andersonfr
  • Le Gang Andersonfr
  • Rapina record a New Yorkit

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