Silver Streak (film)

Silver Streak is a 1976 comedythriller film about a murder on a Los AngelestoChicago train journey. It was directed by Arthur Hiller and stars Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor, with Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty, Clifton James and Richard Kiel in supporting roles. The film score is by Henry Mancini. This film marked the first pairing of Wilder and Pryor, who would later be paired in three more films.

Hilly and George meet after George stumbles through the door of their adjoining rooms, catching her in a state of undress. Later that evening they have dinner and drinks together and then retire to her room for a night of romance. George sees a dead body dangling outside the window of the compartment and then falling away. But he is drunk and Hilly insists he must have imagined it. In the morning, he sees Schreiners book with the authors photo, and realizes the professor was the dead man.Schreiners killers are Johnson Gierasch, Edgar Whiney Walston, and Reace Kiel. George goes to Schreiners room, and Reace throws him off the train near the ArizonaNew Mexico border. George meets a farmer Benson and they overtake the train in her biplane. ........

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