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Writer:
Colin Higgins (writer)
Release Date:
3 December 1976 (USA)
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Tagline:
It's the Most Hilarious Suspense Ride of Your Life!
Plot:
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. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 2 nominations
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(7 articles)
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Funny film with references to some classics
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gene Wilder | ... | George Caldwell |
 | Jill Clayburgh | ... | Hilly Burns |
 | Richard Pryor | ... | Grover Muldoon |
 | Patrick McGoohan | ... | Roger Devereau |
 | Ned Beatty | ... | Bob Sweet |
| Clifton James | ... | Sheriff Oliver Chauncey |
| Ray Walston | ... | Mr. Edgar Whiney |
| Stefan Gierasch | ... | Prof. Schreiner / Johnson |
| Len Birman | ... | Chief Donaldson |
| Valerie Curtin | ... | Plain Jane |
| Lucille Benson | ... | Rita Babtree |
| Scatman Crothers | ... | Ralston |
 | Richard Kiel | ... | Reace |
 | Fred Willard | ... | Jerry Jarvis |
| Delos V. Smith Jr. | ... | Burt (as Delos V. Smith) |
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114 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) |
West Germany:12 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:PG |
USA:PG |
Singapore:PG |
Iceland:12 |
Canada:A (Nova Scotia)
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Patrick McGoohan was only cast after the first choice died.
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Revealing mistakes: When Johnson smashes out the window on the train while it's moving, no wind blows in his face.
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George Caldwell:
[looking at the wrecked locomotive] Kind of looks like it's grinning.
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Edited into The N Word (2004)
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Gene Wilder is the ordinary man caught up in murder on mayhem on the train "Silver Streak" in this 1976 comedy starring Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Ned Beatty, Ray Walston, and Patrick McGoohan. In a quasi-homage to Hitchcock, Wilder plays George Caldwell, who falls for the lovely Hilly (Jill Clayburgh) and finds himself mixed up in art fraud, missing letters of Rembrandt, and murder. Not only that, he keeps getting thrown out of the train. One of those times, he meets up with a criminal, Grover Muldoon (Pryor) who happens to be in the police car he steals. In the funniest scene in the film, Grover has George buy the cap, shoe polish, sunglasses and radio from a shoe polisher at the train station and makes George a black jiver so he can get by the feds.
There are lots of funny scenes in this film, but the best part of it is the chemistry between Wilder and Pryor, who became a successful screen team. This, however, is their best teaming. The bad guys are great. McGoohan and Walston act as if they're in a heavy duty suspense film, which makes them real and threatening. It works perfectly against the comic aspects of the film.
Hitchcock fans will see this as a mild takeoff on "North by Northwest." It is, but it stands on its own as well.