Silver Bears

1977

Action / Comedy / Crime

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 35% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 35% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 1623 1.6K

Plot summary

Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa, consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant. To make up for this, the Prince suggests that Fletcher invests in a silver mine owned by Shireen and Agha Firdausi. This solves one problem, but the mine also attracts the attention of some of the most powerful people in the silver business. Fletcher must pull out all his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything he's worked for, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife.

Director

Top cast

Michael Caine as Doc Fletcher
Cybill Shepherd as Debbie Luckman
David Warner as Agha Firdausi
Martin Balsam as Joe Fiore
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1.01 GB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
1 hr 52 min
Seeds 2
1.88 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
1 hr 52 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by michaelarmer 7 / 10

Cracking Scam Comedy Thriller

This is an underrated gem, its a cracking film, good acting, stunning scenery, good music score, well directed and edited, and an excellent story.This is supposed to be one of Michael Caine's lesser films, not as big as Zulu, the Harry Palmer trilogy or The Italian Job etc, but for me its just as good as those. It has a stellar cast, along with Caine is Louis Jordan, Joss Ackland, Martin Balsam, Cybill Shepherd, Stephane Audran, David Warner, Charles Gray, all excellent actors, even Jay Leno was Ok, even the supporting actors, all were good, so congratulations must go to the Director Ivan Passer for keeping them going as a team and with the pacing of the film. I wish more were made like this.
Reviewed by richardchatten 6 / 10

Creative Accounting

The story of financing and putting together this movie is probably even more remarkable than the intricacies of Oscar-winning scriptwriter Peter Stone's adaptation of Paul Erdman's 1974 'financial thriller' which brings together a once-in-a-lifetime international cast under the direction of Czech emigre Ivan Passer (who died recently, and ten years earlier had been considered the equal of Milos Forman) on picturesque locations that look suspiciously as if they were selected for their tax status as much as their visual attractiveness.

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