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Silver Streak (1976) 6.9
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. Director:Arthur HillerWriter:Colin Higgins |
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George
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| Jill Clayburgh | ... |
Hilly
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Devereau
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Sweet
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Sheriff Chauncey
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Mr. Whiney
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Professor Schreiner & Johnson
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Len Birman | ... |
Chief
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Plain Jane
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Lucille Benson | ... |
Rita Babtree
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Ralston
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Reace
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Delos V. Smith Jr. | ... |
Burt
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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. Written by Alfred Jingle
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It's the Most Hilarious Suspense Ride of Your Life! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
3 December 1976 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
El expreso de Chicago See more »Box Office
Gross:
SEK 13,792,885 (Sweden)Company Credits
Production Co:
Frank Yablans Presentations, Miller-Milkis Productions, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation See more »
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1.85 : 1
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Grover Muldoon: Who you tellin'?I didn't say I was gonna make you black. I said I was gonna get you on the train. Now we got to make them cops think you're black.
[rubs shoe polish on George's face]
George Caldwell: It'll never work. Never.
Grover Muldoon: What, you afraid it won't come off?
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The train crash at the end of the movie was inspired by a real train crash on the morning of January 15, 1953, when the Federal overran the end of the track into the concourse of Washington's Union Station. The locomotive and two passenger cars crashed through the Stationmaster's office and fell through the floor of Union Station into the baggage room below. See more »Goofs
When in the engine cab Deveroux shoots the engineer and he falls out of the cab. But later when Deveroux is shooting at the chopper, the bottom of the engineer's shirt can be seen in the driver's seat in the cab, along with a brief silhouette of a man sitting in the cab seat. See more »Quotes
George Caldwell: I can't pass for black.Grover Muldoon: Who you tellin'?I didn't say I was gonna make you black. I said I was gonna get you on the train. Now we got to make them cops think you're black.
[rubs shoe polish on George's face]
George Caldwell: It'll never work. Never.
Grover Muldoon: What, you afraid it won't come off?
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Though Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder have made about 5 films together this one really shows the chemistry between them.
Gene Wilder is a somewhat average guy that gets involved in a mysterious murder by accident. In the attempts to get rid of him by the criminals he's forced to seek the support of various different individuals, of which Richard Pryor and the cow-farming lady flying the WOI airplane are the most remarkable characters.
Though both Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, as well as Ned Beatty, give the movie the label "comedy", Patrick Mc Goohan and Richard "Jaws" Kiel give it a real thriller character at the same moment: they keep up their performance of tough killers without a sense of humor effortlessly.
The movie itself starts somewhat slowly, but just when you start to feel disappointed because you think you're watching a soft romantic road(train)-movie, a hilarious rat-race is about to start!
Always agreeable to watch whenever it's broad-casted again...