Silver Bears

Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher (Michael Caine) persuades his boss, American mobster Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam), to buy up a Swiss bank in order to more easily launder their ill-gotten gains. The impoverished Italian Prince Gianfranco di Siracusa (Louis Jourdan) agrees to act as chairman of the board. The mine contains hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of untapped silver. The Firdausi silver is flooding the market which leads to a drop in its value at the London Metal Exchange.