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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 · Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor star as a book editor and a thief who team up to solve a murder mystery on a train. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this Hitchcock homage.
- (22K)
- Action, Comedy, Crime
- Arthur Hiller
- 1976-12-03
71% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings. 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...
- (25)
- Arthur Hiller
- PG
- Gene Wilder
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.
- (273)
- Arthur Hiller
- PG
- 22
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.
George Caldwell is an overworked author, taking the "Silver Streak" from Los Angeles to Chicago. His problem is not getting on the train, but staying on the train. After witnessing a dead man being thrown off the train, George must find out the truth behind the murder.
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