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Silver Streak (1976)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:15
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A cross-country express train is the setting for this very engaging mystery-comedy. Wilder plays an editor who gets involved in a murder plot. Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound.
Starring: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Ned Beatty
Starring: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Ned Beatty, Patrick McGoohan, Scatman Crothers, Ray Walston, Clifton James, Richard Kiel, Lucille Benson, Len Birman
Director: Arthur Hiller
Director: Arthur Hiller
Producer: Thomas L. Miller, Edward K. Milkis
Composer: Henry Mancini
Reviews for Silver Streak
Hitchcockian in nature, the film goes down very pleasantly with just the right mix of humor and suspense.
The beginning of the perfectly splendid comic duo of Wilder and Pryor. And man, do I ever miss them.
It could have been a lot funnier if Wilder was a more gifted comic.
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