John Braden

A career criminal goes about business unaware that he is being video-taped throughout.

After ten years in prison, Duke Anderson (Sean Connery) heads for the luxurious Manhattan apartment of his onetime girlfriend, Ingrid Everleigh (Dyan Cannon). Duke gets an idea from the plush layout: he plans to steal the guts out of every apartment in the building. With the support of syndicate boss Pat Angelo (Alan King), Duke prepares the million dollar caper, recruiting the best burglars in New York, including Tommy Haskins (Martin Balsalm), the team's expert on art, antiques and jewels. As each detail of the robbery is worked into the master plan, it is secretly recorded by the electronic 'bugs' planted by various public and private law enforcement agencies, until all the pieces come together in the film's heart-pounding climax.

Woody Allen's humor is at his wild and bizarre best in this story of a "weird-gadget" tester who, after being jilted by his girlfriend (Louise Lasser), ends up as president of a tiny country where absurdity reigns.

Woody Allen's humor is at his wild and bizarre best in this story of a "weird-gadget" tester who, after being jilted by his girlfriend (Louise Lasser), ends up as president of a tiny country where absurdity reigns.

After ten years in prison, Duke Anderson (Sean Connery) heads for the luxurious Manhattan apartment of his onetime girlfriend, Ingrid Everleigh (Dyan Cannon). Duke gets an idea from the plush layout: he plans to steal the guts out of every apartment in the building. With the support of syndicate boss Pat Angelo (Alan King), Duke prepares the million dollar caper, recruiting the best burglars in New York, including Tommy Haskins (Martin Balsalm), the team's expert on art, antiques and jewels. As each detail of the robbery is worked into the master plan, it is secretly recorded by the electronic 'bugs' planted by various public and private law enforcement agencies, until all the pieces come together in the film's heart-pounding climax.

When bumbling product-tester, Fielding Mellish (Allen) is jilted by his girlfriend, Nancy (Louise Lasser), he heads to the tiny republic of San Marcos for a vacation only to become kidnapped by rebels! Once the band of rebels seizes power, their leader goes crazy, and they replace him with Mellish, thinking he can save the country. But when Mellish is nabbed by the FBI, he is put on trial for subversion and in a side-splitting courtroom show-down including the most hilarious self-cross examination ever.

A habitual criminal, looking for a big score immediately upon leaving prison, goes to the syndicate seeking funds for a massive robbery. He intends to ransack a posh East Side New York Apartment building. Rounding up a gang of top-flight thieves, he proceeds to plan and carry out his caper unaware that he is being taped.

After ten years in prison, Duke Anderson (Sean Connery) heads for the luxurious Manhattan apartment of his onetime girlfriend, Ingrid Everleigh (Dyan Cannon). Duke gets an idea from the plush layout: he plans to steal the guts out of every apartment in the building. With the support of syndicate boss Pat Angelo (Alan King), Duke prepares the million dollar caper, recruiting the best burglars in New York, including Tommy Haskins (Martin Balsalm), the team's expert on art, antiques and jewels. As each detail of the robbery is worked into the master plan, it is secretly recorded by the electronic 'bugs' planted by various public and private law enforcement agencies, until all the pieces come together in the film's heart-pounding climax.