“Silver Streak” is a comedy film where Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor team up to stop a murderer on a train from Los Angeles to Chicago. The muddled plot from director Arthur Hiller (“The Out-of-Towners” 1970) and screenwriter Colin Higgins contains numerous distractions including blue language and mindless dialogue.
The cast seems to run around like chickens with their heads cut off, which includes Wilder, Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Patrick McGoohan, Richard Kiel, Fred Willard, Clifton James, Ned Beatty, Ray Walston, Scatman Carothers, Len Birman, and Robert Culp in an uncredited cameo role.
The music for “Silver Streak” was written by Henry Mancini for 20th Century Fox. It was successful at the box office, the first of four films that Wilder and Pryor would appear in together, and had one Academy Award nomination for Best Sound.
Silver Streak (1976)
cinema
My Review
“Silver Streak” is a comedy film where Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor team up to stop a murderer on a train from Los Angeles to Chicago. The muddled plot from director Arthur Hiller (“The Out-of-Towners” 1970) and screenwriter Colin Higgins contains numerous distractions including blue language and mindless dialogue.
The cast seems to run around like chickens with their heads cut off, which includes Wilder, Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Patrick McGoohan, Richard Kiel, Fred Willard, Clifton James, Ned Beatty, Ray Walston, Scatman Carothers, Len Birman, and Robert Culp in an uncredited cameo role.
The music for “Silver Streak” was written by Henry Mancini for 20th Century Fox. It was successful at the box office, the first of four films that Wilder and Pryor would appear in together, and had one Academy Award nomination for Best Sound.