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Silver Streak is a 1976 American thriller comedy 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, Ray Walston, Scatman Crothers, and Richard Kiel in supporting roles.
Dec 3, 1976 · Silver Streak: Directed by Arthur Hiller. With Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan. On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
George Caldwell is taking a slow restful trip to Chicago on the Silver Streak. Or so he thinks. He's involved in a love affair, a murder, is thrown from the train, wanted by the police, and joins forces with a car thief to re-board the train to save his love.
While on a cross-country train ride, overworked book editor George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) begins an unexpected romance with an enigmatic woman named Hilly Burns (Jill Clayburgh). His vacation is ...
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Overview. 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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Jun 5, 2017 · Silver Streak 1976 On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
Silver Streak. A nutty blend of comedy-action-romance in the Hitchcock mold, as a book editor and a sexy secretary try to keep one step ahead of a criminal gang on a speeding train. With Jill Clayburgh. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
Wilder plays a book editor who is falsely accused of murder onboard the Silver Streak, a luxury train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago. The first half of the film is a Hitchcockian mystery with Wilder romancing Jill Clayburgh, tangling with villainous art dealer Patrick McGoohan and being chased by the law.
