Rating: PG
Genre:
Romance
Release Date: 12/14/2004
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD2/DDM2.0
Run Time: 113 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
While taking a train trip from L.A. to Chicago, mild-mannered
George Caldwell (
Gene Wilder) makes the acquaintance of
Hilly Burns (
Jill Clayburgh). As they indulge in a brief bit of spooning,
Hilly tells
George that her boss is on the verge of exposing a group of vicious art forgers. Later that evening,
George sees the body of
Hilly's boss being thrown off of the train.
Detective Sweet (
Ned Beatty) agrees to investigate, but he too is bumped off. The instigator of these outrages is master forger
Roger Devereau (
Patrick McGoohan), who, with his crony
Mr. Whiney (
Ray Walston) is planning a particularly diabolical crime. Worse still, they take
Hilly prisoner so she can't tip off the cops. When
George is also targeted for elimination, he manages in
slapstick fashion to elude the killers. Falling off the train, he ends up being arrested on some trumped-up charge or other by a local sheriff. He makes his escape in the company of petty thief
Grover Muldoon (
Richard Pryor) -- and that's only the beginning. A box-office smash,
Silver Streak paved the way for the equally successful 1980
Wilder-
Pryor vehicle
Stir Crazy.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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