Silver Bears (film)

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name = Silver Bears


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director = Ivan Passer
writer = Paul Erdman
Peter Stone
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starring = Michael Caine
Louis Jourdan
Jay Leno
Joss Ackland
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = 21 April 1978
runtime = flagicon|UK 113 minutes
country = UK USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0076715for|the Silver Bear award|Berlin International Film Festival

Silver Bears is a 1978 comedy thriller film directed by Ivan Passer and starring Michael Caine, Louis Jourdan, Jay Leno and Joss Ackland. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076715/] Caine portrays Doc Fletcher, a financial wizard, who acquires a bank and a silver mine in Swizterland.

Synopsis

An American mobster wants to open a legtimate Swiss bank, and hires a British financier Doc Fletcher (Caine) and an Italian Prince (Jourdan) and gives them $3m to find a sutiable bank. They also have to take his wayward son Alberto under his arm. Unfortunately Fletcher leaves the purchase of a bank in the hands of the Prince, who wastes their money on a small shabby establishment above a restaurant, realising he can not go back to America and admit failure Fletcher decides they have to make do as best they can.

The Prince has ideas, however, of how they can use the bank to make a killing both for themselves and their employers. They fly out to Iran, where Fletcher meets distant relations of the Prince who have discovered a large silver mine containing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of untapped silver. The owners of the mine wish to keep it a a secret, for fear that the government will try and nationalise the valuable property. Fletcher agrees to use the bank to funnel the silver onto the markets, quickly making it one of the wealthiest banks in Switzerland.

However, it soon attracts the interest of a major American bank and the richest man in the world, Sir Charles Cook. Cook arranges for the Americans to buy the Swiss Bank, so that they can gain control of the mine. Fletcher begins to try and piece together a deal that can save the bank.

Cast

* Michael Caine - Doc Fletcher
* Cybill Shepherd - Debbie Luckman
* Louis Jourdan - Prince di Siracusa
* Stéphane Audran - Shireen Firdausi
* David Warner - Agha Firdausi
* Tom Smothers - Donald Luckman
* Martin Balsam - Joe Fiore
* Jay Leno - Albert Fiore
* Charles Gray - Sir Charles Cook
* Joss Ackland - Henry Foreman

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*imdb title|0076715