Silver Streak
(1976)
By plane, by train, by the edge of your seat, it's the most hilarious suspense ride of your life!
Stars: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Colin Higgins
Language: English
Studio: Frank Yablans Presentations
Duration: 114
Rated: PG
DVD Release: December 2004
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.
| Gene Wilder | George |
| Jill Clayburgh | Hilly |
| Richard Pryor | Grover |
| Patrick McGoohan | Roger |
| Jack Mather (II) | |
| Ned Beatty | Sweet |
| Margarita García | Mexican Mama-San (as Margarita Garcia) |
| Clifton James | Sheriff Chauncey |
| David M. Walsh | Cinematographer |
| David Bretherton | Editor |
| Ray Walston | Mr. Whiney |
| Nick Stewart | Shoeshiner |
| Stefan Gierasch | Professor Schreiner / Johnson |
| Len Birman | Chief |
| Mathilda Calnan | Blue-Haired Lady (as Matilda Calnan) |
| 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) |
| Jack Mather | Conductor |
| Henry Beckman | Conventioneer |
| Steve Weston | Conventioneer |
| Harvey Atkin | Conventioneer |
| Lloyd White | Porter |
| Ed McNamara | Benny |
| Raymond Guth | Night Watchman |
| John Daheim | Engineer #2 (as John Day) |
| Jack O'Leary | Fat Man #1 |
| Lee McLaughlin | Fat Man #2 |
| Bill Henderson | Red Cap |
| Tom Erhart | Cab Driver |
| Gordon Hurst | Moose |
| Danny Gain | Police Detective (uncredited) |
| Robert Culp | FBI Agent |
| Martin Ransohoff | Executive Producer |
| J.A. Preston | Waiter (uncredited) |
| Frank Yablans | Executive Producer |
| Wendy Girard | Girl on the Train |
| Cal Wilson | Silver Streak Steward (uncredited) |
| Mel Gold | Train Passenger |
| Henry Mancini | Composer |
| Bob Harks | Train Passenger |
| Maurice Marks | Train Passenger |
| Alfred Sweeney | Production Designer |
| Steve Meek | Man in Brown Jacket at Train Station |
| Norman Palmer | Train Passenger |
| Max Kleven | second unit director |
| Jack Roe | Assistant Director |
| L. Andrew Stone | second assistant director |
Genre: Classics, Comedy
Media: DVD
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
IMDb: 0075223
