Sidney Lumet directs Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon and Martin Balsam in this heist movie where a just released convict attempts to rob every home in the swanky apartment building of his girlfriend.

Told in flashback from an uncertain aftermath and with a particular emphasis on new surveillance technology, you can see what attracted Lumet. It is a gentle caper that builds to a meh punchline. Christopher Walken gets his official debut and Martin Balsam’s take on a gay art dealer is dated but amusingly so. Horrible whiny score, terrible garish end credits.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Offence (1972)

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