Silver Bears
Silver Bears ★★ 1978 (PG)
Las Vegas mobster Balsam hires con man Caine and sends him to Switzerland to buy a bank for laundering purposes. Only a bankrupt prince (Jourdan) entices Caine into a scheme to control the world's silver market and he ends up being swindled himself. So-so entry adapted from the novel by Paul Erdman. 114m/C VHS . Michael Caine, Cybill Shepherd, Louis Jourdan, Stephane Audran, David Warner, Tom Smothers, Martin Balsam, Jay Leno, Charles Gray, Joss Ackland; D: Ivan Passer; M: Claude Bolling.
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