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67% Critic Match
Silver Streak
“By train, by plane, by the edge of your seat - It's the most hilarious suspense ride of your life!”
6.7 / 10• 1976• 1h 54m•PG• English
ComedyCrimeRomanceThrillerAction
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Gene Wilder
George Caldwell
Lead
Jill Clayburgh
Hildegard 'Hilly' Burns
Richard Pryor
Grover Muldoon
Patrick McGoohan
Roger Devereau
Ned Beatty
Bob Sweet
Clifton James
Sheriff Chauncey
Ray Walston
Mr. Edgar Whiney
Stefan Gierasch
Professor Schreiner & Johnson
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Arthur Hiller's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Silver Streak is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
