The Silent Partner

Name: The Silent Partner
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: March 16, 1979
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Céline Lomez, Christopher Plummer, Elliott Gould, Gail Dahms-Bonine, John Candy

1979

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EMC | Release Date: March 16, 1979 | R

Starring: Céline Lomez, Christopher Plummer, Elliott Gould, Gail Dahms-Bonine, John Candy, Ken Pogue, Michael Kirby, Micheal Donaghue, Sean Sullivan, Susannah York

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.

Director: Daryl Duke

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 106 min

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RogerEbert.com Roger Ebert

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. Read full review

Gene Seymour

An undervalued 1978 thriller with an ingenious script by Curtis Hanson. [23 Feb 2001, p.18]

Janet Maslin

A dense, quirky, uncommonly interesting movie, this time with a high quotient of suspense. Read full review

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The Silent Partner is one of the films that run the gamut from intrigue to violence. Read full review

Gary Arnold

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. Read full review

Derek Smith

Though Duke’s film lacks the warmth and humanism of Something Wild, it’s possessed of a similarly idiosyncratic edginess. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Nov 24, 2021

This is very much a cheesy 1970s thriller film. Less horror, more crime thriller. It's quite melodramatic but certainly, it's an entertaining watch regardless. I quite liked the fact it has a Christmas setting and is a bit darker than other, family-friendly Christmas films. The incidentThis is very much a cheesy 1970s thriller film. Less horror, more crime thriller. It's quite melodramatic but certainly, it's an entertaining watch regardless. I quite liked the fact it has a Christmas setting and is a bit darker than other, family-friendly Christmas films. The incident music was perhaps a little over the top at times but then again, it adds to the cheesiness, which was, in itself, amusing and entertaining in its own way. The plot is quirky and its a worthwhile watch, I'd say, just maybe don't expect too much and it's fair to say it's aged but then what do you expect, for a film from the late 1970s?.

This has the feel somewhat of a TV soap drama thriller film which is worth a watch and so yes, I'd recommend it as such.… Expand

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