The Silent Partner (1978)

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   Panunzio

   Christopher Plummer provides a fantastic turn in an otherwise restrained crime thriller. 6 years 9 months ago
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   Rodney Dangerfield

   Deserves to be in a list. 11 years 3 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Canadian director Daryl Duke's low-stakes Christmas heist, The Silent Partner, stars Elliott Gould as a boring bank teller working in a Toronto mall bank (so you can well imagine the Christmassyness is HEAVY), who becomes aware that a Santa Claus is gonna rob the place. For reasons not particularly explored except the normal ennui on a bank job, he manages to trick the robber (Christopher Plummer) and take the money for himself. That's the set-up to a tense fiasco-in-the-making as the robber won't take this lying down. The key element is that Gould's Miles Cullen is a chess player, and tough he loses control of the game several times either through bad luck or his opponent making bold moves like taking his queen, is he in fact smart enough to win the game? And there lie the joys of this picture. The move-countermove structure keeps things alive. There's also a small role for John Candy in here, so completists, to your streaming machines! 2 years 12 months ago

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