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Silver Streak is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Arthur Hiller released in USA on 3 december 1976 with Gene Wilder

Silver Streak (1976)

Silver Streak
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Released in USA 3 december 1976
Length 1h54
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Thriller,    Comedy,    Action,    Crime,    Romance
Rating68% 3.448423.448423.448423.448423.44842

Silver Streak is a 1976 comedy-thriller film about a murder on a Los Angeles-to-Chicago 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.

Synopsis

Book editor George Caldwell (Wilder) travels from Los Angeles to Chicago for his sister's wedding aboard a train called the Silver Streak. On board, George meets a vitamin salesman named Bob Sweet (Beatty) and a woman named Hilly Burns (Clayburgh). Hilly works for Professor Schreiner, a well-known art historian who is on a publicity tour for his new book about Rembrandt.

Actors

Gene Wilder

(George Caldwell)
Jill Clayburgh

(Hildegard 'Hilly' Burns)
Patrick McGoohan

(Roger Devereau)
Richard Pryor

(Grover Muldoon)
Ned Beatty

(Bob Sweet)
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