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The Silent Partner (1978 film)

The Silent Partner
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Movie cover for The Silent Partner
Directed by Daryl Duke
Produced by Joel B. Michaels
Stephen Young
Written by Anders Bodelsen
Curtis Hanson
Starring Elliott Gould
Christopher Plummer
Susannah York
Music by Oscar Peterson
Cinematography Billy Williams
Production
company
Distributed by EMC Film Corporation
Release date
  • 30 March 1979 (1979-03-30) (U.S.)
Running time
106 min.
Country Canada
Language English
Budget C$2,500,000 (estimated)

The Silent Partner (French title: L'argent de la banque) is a 1978 Canadian heist film directed by Daryl Duke. It stars Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer and Susannah York.

The film was the first to be produced by Carolco Pictures and one of the earliest films from Canada to take advantage of the Canadian government's "Capital Cost Allowance" plans. The Silent Partner is also notable for being one of the very few films to have a score composed by Oscar Peterson, and for featuring an early big-screen appearance by John Candy.

The Silent Partner is a remake of the Danish film Think of a Number (Tænk på et tal) from 1969 written and directed by Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt. Both are based on the novel Tænk på et tal by Danish writer Anders Bodelsen.

Miles Cullen (Elliott Gould), a bored teller at a small bank in a large Toronto shopping mall (the Eaton Centre), accidentally learns that his place of business is about to be robbed when he finds a discarded note on one of the bank's counters. He also figures out who the would-be robber will be when he sees a mall Santa Claus hanging around outside the bank whose "give to charity" sign is in handwriting similar to that on the discarded stick-up note.

Instead of informing his bosses or contacting the police, Miles devises a way of keeping the cash from most of his window's transactions in an old lunch box rather than in the bank's till. As a result, when the Santa Claus robber holds up Miles at the teller's desk, he nets far less than the police and the bank think he has.

The thief, a psychopath named Harry Reikle (Christopher Plummer), figures out what happened, then makes a series of desperate and violent attempts to get the money (totaling CA$48,300) that Miles has kept for himself. Reikle starts following Miles to and from his home, making harassing phone calls.


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