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Silver Streak
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543114901
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: D2221490D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 14, 2004
Running Time: 113 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: December 03, 1976
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Editorial Review:
Despite the presence of hack director Arthur Hiller, this hybrid comedy-thriller works most of the time as pleasant faux Hitchcock. Gene Wilder is a book editor who is relaxing by taking a cross-country train ride. Then he gets caught up in a murder--and becomes a suspect. It's up to him to prove his own innocence. As noted, the script, by Colin Higgins, owes a big debt to Alfred Hitchcock; but the mystery isn't all that mysterious and the comedy isn't all that hilarious--at least not until Richard Pryor shows up, which is at least halfway through the film. Things definitely pick up from there. Jill Clayburgh, as the love interest, is merely along for the train ride. Wilder and Pryor eventually teamed up for several other films, but they were never as funny together as they are in this one. --Marshall Fine
In this wild comedy adventure, rail passenger George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) finds that a romantic escapade with a sultry secretary (Jill Clayburgh) puts him in the middle of a Hitchcockian murder plot. Leaping on and off the train, in and out of roomettes
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Classic Comedy
I recently bought Silver Streak on DVD to watch on my laptop while on a cross-country train trip. Even though the clothes and hair styles date this movie, it's still as funny as it was when first released. Classic Gene Wilder / Richard Pyror comedy that one never tires of watching.
Rating:  - Silver Streak
Probably one of the best comedies ever. I've seen it several times and have never been bored. Lots of action. It definitely belongs in my collection. Highly recommended.
Rating:  - dvd
Not near as funny as I remembered it from the first time around years ago. I was a little disappointed.
Rating: - Classic comedy
Gene Wilder and Richard Prior at their best. Very funny movie, and great for the entire family.
Rating:  - Better in the '70s but still worth a look
Silver Streak is sort of a 1976 update of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world with a little North by Northwest thrown in. Snappy score by Henry Mancini.
I was 29 when I saw the movie in its initial release. I thought it was a scream, one of the best movies I'd ever seen. The way Gene Wilder yells "sonofa [slang term for female dog]!" every time he gets thrown off the train. What could be funnier?
That was an era when the [slang term for illicit narcotic] flowed freely. ... Read More
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