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The Silent Partner is a 1978 Canadian thriller film directed by Daryl Duke and starring Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, and Susannah York. The screenplay by Curtis Hanson is based on the novel Think of a Number ( Tænk på et tal ) by Danish writer Anders Bodelsen , and is the third filmed adaptation of the novel.
Feb 21, 2024 · In 1974, a medic named John Rees noticed the girls’ strange behavior while administering a yearly school-sanctioned health check. According to Rees, the twins were unusually non-reactive to being vaccinated. He described June and Jennifer Gibbons’ behavior as “doll-like” and quickly alerted the school’s headmaster.
What truly elevates The Silent Partner beyond an extraordinarily well written diversion is the essential darkness of the symbiotic relationship between Gould and Plummer. Gould is already not a conventional hero (he commits a crime after all, and one that has deadly repercussions for some of his associates), but we can all identify with his desire to transgress a society that sometimes takes ...
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.
- Curtis Hanson, Daryl Duke
The Silent Partner: Directed by Daryl Duke, Curtis Hanson. With Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Céline Lomez. A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Daryl Duke, Curtis Hanson
- 1979-03-16
Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczyńska directed a feature film with the twins as the subject, starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance, based on the 1986 book The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace. Her English-language debut, the film was an international co-production between the United Kingdom's 42 Management & Production and Poland's Mandats and backed by the Polish Film Institute and ...
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The movie tells the story of these people with such convincing and understated detail that the plot, preposterous as it really is, becomes almost convincing. That’s partially the achievement of the director, Daryl Duke, a Canadian veteran of a lot of television and one superb feature film, “ Payday,” which starred Rip Torn as a doomed ...
