Silver Streak
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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 54mPG 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

Gene Wilder

George Caldwell

Lead
Jill Clayburgh

Jill Clayburgh

Hildegard 'Hilly' Burns

Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor

Grover Muldoon

Patrick McGoohan

Patrick McGoohan

Roger Devereau

Ned Beatty

Ned Beatty

Bob Sweet

Clifton James

Clifton James

Sheriff Chauncey

Ray Walston

Ray Walston

Mr. Edgar Whiney

Stefan Gierasch

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.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Silver Streak is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker