silver streak movie review

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Gene Wilder is the ordinary man caught up in murder and mayhem on the train Silver Streak in this 1976 comedy starring Richard Pryor Jill Clayburgh Ned Beatty Ray Walston and Patrick McGoohan. But all that.

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Hitchcockian in nature the film goes down very.

. Check out the exclusive TV Guide movie review and see our movie rating for Silver Streak. Wes-connors 20 October 2014. We were worried about that scene What happened was I was reading about Buster Keaton Gene Wilder said.

About how he did all his own stunts. This adaptation of the 1961 movie brings a breath of fresh air to the script as well as giving some characters a richer backstory. Aboard the rapid Silver Streak train the recently divorced Los Angeles non-fiction book publisher George Caldwell is on his way to Chicago to attend his sisters wedding.

An engineer is killed and later the conductor. For instance Tony did not leave the Jets like in the original but was sent to prison for 1 year after participating in a rumble or a gang fight. When he can find no one who will believe him he starts doing some investigating of his own.

It takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes a Train to Cry. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in Silver Streak. It goes on way too long but at least it ends with the train barelling into the Chicago train terminal with some fairly impressive 76 special effects.

Book editor George sees a murdered man thrown from a train heading to Chicago. At a board of directors meeting handsome railroad engineer Charles Starrett as Tom Caldwell presents his plan for a modern high-speed train called The Silver Streak. Like a Mel Brooks comic spellbinder merged with some of the flavor of Inspector Clouseau.

Like the time he had to stand in exactly the right place for the two-ton building to fall on him and he was. A couple enemies run away. The main antagonist however stomps on his hands and takes him off the train.

Pryor to Murphy 1983. In a quasi-homage to Hitchcock Wilder plays George Caldwell who falls for the lovely Hilly Jill Clayburgh and finds himself mixed. Eager to spend two carefree days of sluggish monotony instead the bright-eyed bachelor strikes up an acquaintance with the beautiful blue-eyed fellow passenger Hilly Burns and suddenly life is exciting again.

Silver Streak is a lightweight Hitchcockesque comedy set on board its titular train. Does it turn out goodThanks for the support on Patreon. Unless you had that cast and put them in a better movie.

Silver Streak also features Ned Beatty Scatman Crothers Fred Willard and Ray Walston. Silver Streak the train which travels from LA to Chicago and houses a murder dawdles rather than streaks. Characters and plot ramble at will and no matter how high Colin Higgins script flies Arthur Hillers direction remains with feet and hands firmly on.

While its genuinely funny with even a modicum of suspense the reason its remembered so well is for being the first film to pair Gene Wilder. The first time Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder teamed up. Gene Wilder Jill Clayburgh and Richard Pryor are all on display here as the Silver Streak s.

Recommended First-Run Movies on TV Silver Streak A Bridge Too Far The Turning Point Oh God. Silver Streak is the sort of comedy that leaves you exhausted though not from laughingThe film which is set mostly aboard a Los Angeles-to-Chicago train and has to do with art forgers cops. Several agents are shot and killed.

Roger Ebert December 23 1976. The conservative board of directors considers Mr. The main antagonist gets the worst death in the film.

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in Silver Streak. One enemy is shot but gets his hands on the train. Original movie reviews untainted by time.

Opening Soon at a Theater Near You 1975. They have really given this movie the 1970s treatment for this front cover. Starretts progressive plan preposterous.

They also have revised the order in which some songs are. One enemy is shot dead.

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