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Silver Streak (1976)

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. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Streak_(film) 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. source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075223/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** 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. ...

The Tenant (1979)

The Tenant is a 1976 psychological thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, and Shelley Winters. It is based upon the 1964 novel Le locataire chimรฉrique by Roland Topor. The film is also known under the French title Le Locataire. It is the last film in Polanski's "Apartment Trilogy", following Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tenant In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without a bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule, committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge (Shelley Winters) and the tough landlord Mr. Zy establish stringent rules of behavior, and Trelkovsky feels ridden by his neighbors. Meanwhile, he visits Simone in the hospital and befriends her girlfriend Stella. After the death of Simone, Trelkovsky feels obsessed with her and believes his landlord and neighbors are plotting a scheme to force him to also...