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  • 1979
  • R
  • EMC Releasing
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 1979
  • R
  • EMC Releasing
  • 1 h 46 m
The Silent Partner

Summary A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.

Directed By: Daryl Duke, Curtis Hanson

Written By: Anders Bodelsen, Curtis Hanson

  • 1979
  • R
  • EMC Releasing
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 1979
  • R
  • EMC Releasing
  • 1 h 46 m

The Silent Partner

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.

Directed By: Daryl Duke, Curtis Hanson

Written By: Anders Bodelsen, Curtis Hanson

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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
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A small but wonderful gem of a thriller: A film in which complicated people and a very complicated plot come together in a mechanism that leaves us marveling at its ingenuity.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
80
An undervalued 1978 thriller with an ingenious script by Curtis Hanson. [23 Feb 2001, p.18]
By Gene Seymour FULL REVIEW
80
A dense, quirky, uncommonly interesting movie, this time with a high quotient of suspense.
By Janet Maslin FULL REVIEW
70
The Silent Partner is one of the films that run the gamut from intrigue to violence.
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63
Though Duke’s film lacks the warmth and humanism of Something Wild, it’s possessed of a similarly idiosyncratic edginess.
By Derek Smith FULL REVIEW
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Before it takes an appalling turn for the vicious, The Silent Partner seems an uncommonly clever and gripping suspense thriller. Even after the story threatens to self-destruct, you fight the impulse to suffer a major letdown, for the sake of the swell nerve-racking time you've been having up to that point.
By Gary Arnold FULL REVIEW
50
If it weren't for the gimmicks (and the sadism is so gratuitous it could be nothing else), then the film could easily pass for a minor caper thriller of the '60s, all convoluted plot and calculated kookiness. But cyphers (both female leads) and question-marks (who'll get the money, who'll survive - who cares?) dominate the script as every labyrinthine twist becomes more plodding.
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Production Company Carolco Pictures, Cine Guarantors
Release Date Mar 16, 1979
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating R
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Tagline A masterpiece of cunning and suspense... In a web of mounting tension, a beautiful girl is trapped and torn between two lovers, climaxing in a scene more terrifying than a nightmare!
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Awards

Canadian Film Awards
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations

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