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BANTAM, Conn. — Actor Rip Torn was taken in handcuffs this morning to a Connecticut courthouse, where he’ll face allegations later today that he broke into a bank with a loaded revolver while intoxicated.

Torn made a brief appearance in the courtroom this morning after his arrest on gun and burglary charges on Friday night.

A disheveled Torn walked into the courtroom with his wrists and ankles shackled to several other prisoners — wearing cowboy boots, black pants and a Navy blue jacket.

Torn, 78, was armed with a loaded gun when he broke a window and entered the Litchfield Bancorp in Salisbury on Friday, officials said.

The actor was so drunk he had no idea he was in a bank, the sources said. Torn’s lawyer could not be reached for comment.

Bank President Mark Macomber said that no one was in the bank during the break-in and that the only damage was the smashed window in the back of the building that Torn apparently thought was his front door.

Torn’s family has staged multiple interventions over the past couple of years with little to show for it but court dates and embarrassing headlines, sources close to the actor said.

According to one source, Torn figured he had made significant progress by cutting back from four pints of alcohol a day to a single pint.

It doesn’t help that he likes guns almost as much as he likes booze, the source said.

Torn, whose real name is Elmore Torn, has starred in scores of films and television shows over six decades. He won an Emmy for “The Larry Sanders Show” in 1992 and was nominated for an Oscar in 1983 for “Cross Creek.”