It's not about the money… It's about revenge.
Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.
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- Steveon TMDB · Dec 20168/10
The Silent Partner (1978) filmnoiroftheweek.com Is The Silent Partner the best Canadian crime film? That's a bit of a joke because I can't think of any other Canadian crime film. I first discovered the movie about 5 years ago. I'm a movie nerd, and this movie is so small and forgotten even the most die hard crime film fans have probably never heard of it. The film never got the correct distribution in theaters in the US, and wasn't rediscovered on VHS or TV the years following it's release. That's a shame. The movie bookends nicely with Elliot Gould's other neo-noir starrer from 5 years earlier The Long Goodbye. Like Gould's interpretation of Philip Marlowe as a sleepwalking gumshoe trying to understand 70s Los Angeles, Gould cleverly makes his character in The Silent Partner something more than meets the eye. Kim Morgan interviewed Gould recently as part of the screening of the film Christmas Eve at the New Beverly Cinema in LA. Gould says his character Miles is "a very interesting metaphor in getting someone to come out and get involved in life." Gould plays a humble bank teller. He spends all his time alone with his fish, books and chess board in a cozy apartment that just begs
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Cast
- Elliott GouldMiles Cullen
- Christopher PlummerReikle
- Susannah YorkJulie
- Céline LomezElaine
- Michael KirbyCharles Packard
- Ken PogueDetective Willard
- John CandySimonsen
- Gail Dahms-BonineLouise
- Michael DonaghueBerg
- Sean SullivanBank Guard
Crew
- Daryl DukeDirector
- Curtis HansonScreenplay
- Anders BodelsenNovel
- Billy WilliamsDirector of Photography
- Oscar PetersonOriginal Music Composer
- George ApplebyEditor
- Joel B. MichaelsProducer
- Stephen YoungProducer
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