Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Gene WilderGeorge Caldwell
- Jill ClayburghHildegard 'Hilly' Burns
- Richard PryorGrover Muldoon
- Patrick McGoohanRoger Devereau
- Ned BeattyBob Sweet
- Clifton JamesSheriff Chauncey
- Ray WalstonMr. Edgar Whiney
- Stefan GieraschProfessor Schreiner & Johnson
- Len BirmanChief
- Valerie CurtinPlain Jane
Recommendations
- 60
Variety
While falling short of its comedy promise (except when Richard Pryor is on the screen), Silver Streak is an okay adventure comedy starring Gene Wilder on the lam from crooked art thieves aboard a trans-continental train. - 50
The New York Times
The sort of comedy that leaves you exhausted, though not from laughing. - 50
Time Out
Silver Streak, the train which travels from LA to Chicago and houses a murder, dawdles rather than streaks. Characters and plot ramble at will, and no matter how high Colin Higgins' script flies, Arthur Hiller's direction remains with feet and hands firmly on the ground. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Silver Streak is a throwback to the screwball comedies of the 1930s but with none of the verve or the motivation needed to get an audience to swallow the shenanigans. - 50
Newsweek
It isn't a comedy - it's a sluggish adventure movie about an L.A.-to-Chicago train trip that wastes two considerable talents. [13 Dec 1976, p.106A] - 40
Empire
Its hard to remember that this extremely unexceptional film was a major hit back in the 70s. - 30
The New Yorker
So inept you can't even get angry; it's like the imitations of sophisticated entertainment that high-school kids put on.
