The Anderson Tapes (1971 Sidney Lumet)

Last seen here, screenplay by Lawrence Sanders and Frank Pierson builds to a typically seventies mess of an ending in which we think everyone dies... the final twist - that all the surveillance of Connery is illegal and thus is wiped - doesn't really help, as we think he's headed back to prison (if not dead) - along with gay art dealer (who's disturbingly referred to by the police as a 'deviant') Martin Balsam.

Didn't really get the relationship between Connery and Dyan Cannon either. With Christopher Walken.

Pluses: still contemporary themes, Quincy Jones's score featuring a great bass player, tense scenes of cops on roof which are clearly real.