Silver Streak is a 1976 comedy-thriller film about a murder on a Los Angeles-to-Chicago train journey. It was directed by Arthur Hiller and stars Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor, with Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty, Clifton James and Richard Kiel in supporting roles. The film score is by Henry Mancini. This film marked the first pairing of Wilder and Pryor, who would later be paired in three more films.
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
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It's dated, it needed a bit more realism. I hear that Stir Crazy is the one movie where the Wilder/Pryor duo really shine. I'm going to give that one a try.
The funniest scene is where Wilder bangs the walls of the train. I like the fact that he gets thrown out of the train 3 times also. That's it.
This end scene is kind of cool.
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