Directed by:
James TobackScreenplay:
James TobackCinematography:
Fred SchulerCast:
Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski, Armand Assante, King Vidor, Tony Sirico, Tony Plana, Jacqueline Brookes, William Prince, Terry Jastrow (more)Plots(1)
Byron Levin (Ray Sharkey) has two sides. One is Byron the workaday L.A. banker quick to defend a harassed co-worker. The other is a pent-up employee who'll say something outrageous to a stranger for shock effect. Increasingly, Byron's risk-taking nature takes hold. And it becomes a stranglehold when Byron is seduced by the deadly allure of Love and Money in this tantalizing thriller from James Toback (The Pick-up Artist, Bugsy). Byron accepts a million-dollar deal with a global silver magnate (Klaus Kinski). His reason says no but his passions say yes: he's begun an illicit affair with the tycoon's exotic wife (Ornella Muti). In return, he must persuade a former college roommate, now a Latin American strongman (Armand Assante), to stop nationalizing the silver mines. And if words fail him, bullets will do. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ray Sharkey
USA
Best movies:
Some Kind of Hero (1982)
Stunts (1977)
Paradise Alley (1978)
Ornella Muti
Italy
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) (series)
Viva Italia! (1977)
The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)
Klaus Kinski
Best movies:
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Armand Assante
USA
Best movies:
American Gangster (2007)
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980) (TV movie)
California Dreamin' (Endless) (2007)
King Vidor
USA
Best movies:
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
It's a Great Feeling (1949)
Show People (1928)
Tony Sirico
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
Goodfellas (1990)
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Tony Plana
Cuba
Best movies:
JFK (1991)
Primal Fear (1996)
Salvador (1986)
Jacqueline Brookes
USA
Best movies:
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)
The Gambler (1974)
Sea of Love (1989)
William Prince
USA
Best movies:
Sybil (1976) (TV movie)
Objective, Burma! (1945)
Network (1976)
Terry Jastrow
USA
Best movies:
Seven (1979)
Love & Money (1981)
Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.
Mexico
Best movies:
Gilda (1946)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
The Big Steal (1949)
Daniel Faraldo
Best movies:
Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)
Mr. Nice (2010)
La dona il·legal (2020)
Stephen Keep Mills
USA
Best movies:
Who Will Love My Children? (1983) (TV movie)
Starlight One (1983) (TV movie)
The Glimmer Man (1996)
Gene Rutherford
USA
Best movies:
Will Penny (1967)
Hurry Sundown (1967)
Love & Money (1981)
Tom McFadden
Best movies:
Cry for Me, Billy (1972)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Sonny Gibson
Best movies:
Dark Before Dawn (1988)
Love & Money (1981)