Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher (Sir Michael Caine) is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam) to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he ...
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Michael Caine | ... | Doc Fletcher | |
| Cybill Shepherd | ... | Debbie Luckman | |
| Louis Jourdan | ... | Prince Gianfranco di Siracusa | |
| Stéphane Audran | ... | Shireen Firdausi | |
| David Warner | ... | Agha Firdausi | |
| Tom Smothers | ... | Donald Luckman | |
| Martin Balsam | ... | Joe Fiore | |
| Jay Leno | ... | Albert Fiore | |
| Tony Mascia | ... | Marvin Skinner | |
| Charles Gray | ... | Charles Cook | |
| Joss Ackland | ... | Henry Foreman | |
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Jeremy Clyde | ... | Nick Topping |
| Moustache | ... | Signore Bendetti | |
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Mike Falco | ... | Boston |
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Philip Mascellino | ... | St. Louis |
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Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher (Sir Michael Caine) is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam) 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 (Louis Jourdan), 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 (Stéphane Audran and David Warner). 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 of his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything for which he's worked, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife (Cybill Shepherd). Written by marktreut
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silver bullion | champagne | silver smuggling | sherry | cigar smoking |Taglines:
They were after silver and they struck gold.Parents Guide:
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EnglishRelease Date:
3 June 1977 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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When Luckman (Tom Smothers) offers to buy the bank his hands alternate, between shots, from being in his pockets, to hanging loose by his sides. See more »Crazy Credits
The final credits play over a scene of Donald Luckman writing his story of the events whilst in gaol. See more »Connections
Referenced in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Burt Reynolds/Diana Ross/Jack Douglas/Jay Leno (1977) See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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The real curiosity is the fact that it stars Jay Leno in what is actually the third largest part in the film. Leno is good in his role, certainly much better than you'd expect from one of the current kings of late night TV. Certainly had this film been made now Leno would be billed near the top instead of eighth or ninth in the cast list. If you're dying to be able to one up your friends in useless trivia and to be able to see a film that they probably haven;t seen, but might want to for the curiosity factor, give it a shot.