Silver Streak (1976)

Directed by

Arthur Hiller

Genre

buddy film, crime film, mystery film, action comedy film, comedy thriller

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 366 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man on a cross-country train witnesses a murder and gets tangled up with forgers and killers. He teams up with a fellow passenger to solve the crime and clear his name.

lightheartedsuspensefulfunnyfast-pacedwhimsicalplayfultensecomic

What happens

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, written by Colin Higgins, 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. The film score is by Henry Mancini. This film marked the first pairing of Wilder and Pryor, who were later paired in three other films. The film is primarily set on a train called the Silver Streak. A passenger accidentally finds out about the murder of an art historian and about efforts to discredit the victim's book. A shady art dealer is profiting from forged works of Rembrandt and is willing to kill in order to maintain secrecy about his crimes. The film was released on December 8, 1976, by 20th Century Fox, and it received positive reviews from critics as well as earning $51.1 million against a budget between $5.5 million and $6.5 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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