Silver Streak (DVD)

Description: Genre: Comedy / Theatrical Release: 1976 / Parental Guidance / Director: Arthur Hiller / Actors: Jill Clayburgh, ... more

Silver Streak (DVD) ... Lucille Benson, Len Birman, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder ... / DVD released 2006-09-04 at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL

Newest Review: ... trying to stop a rival professor from giving a lecture which will destroy his reputation. This is where the film does lose ... more

... some credibility. The plot is ludicrous, at one point we are told that Devereaux, McGoohan's character, has gone to such lengths in the past as to kill 100 people aboard a plane to protect his reputation as an art dealer!?. Anyway, this doesn't really matter as 'Silver Streak' is huge fun regardless. Wilder is continually thrown off the train and has to keep getting back on it with various humorous, though not hilarious interludes. During one of these interludes he meets Richard Pryor's character, Grover Muldoon, a smal...more

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	Silver Streak [1976] [DVD] Release Date: 2006 - 09 - 04, Rating Parental Guidance, Last Update 22.12.2009 05:45	£ 4.88	Free! within 24 hours

Silver Streak [1976] [DVD]
Release Date: 2006 - 09 - 04, Rating Parental Guidance,

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Silver Streak (DVD): Pryor and Wilder (695 words)
by - written on 24/11/08 (Very useful, 50 readings)
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This is a review of the film. 'Silver Streak' stars Gene Wilder as mild mannered publisher George Caldwell travelling on a train [the Silver Streak] from Los Angeles to Chicago. Although he claims to want a quiet journey to catch up on some reading, it turns out to be anything but. First he meets a scantily clad Jill Clayburgh in the partitioned compartment to his. He then meets the lecherous Bill Sweet [a great performance from Ned Beatty] who describes the train as a 'cathouse on wheels!'. What this all leads to is a classic whodunnit on a train, borrowing from films such as 'Narrow Margin' and 'Strangers On A Train', and several other Hitchcock/noir type ... Read the complete review

Weirdoes on a train (646 words)
by - written on 12/09/08 (Very useful, 52 readings)
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Director: Arthur Hiller Producer: Edward K. Milkis Writer: Colin Higgins Stars: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor Jill Clayburgh, Ned Beatty and Pattrick McGoohan Released in late 1976 this near two hour movie takes us on a train journey which we will never forget.... **BRIEF PLOT** When George Caldwel, (played by Gene Wilder) starts his journey on the 'Silver Streak', a train running from Los Angelis to Chicago it is not long before he realises that the journey is going to be more eventful than first thought... Whilst on the train, George meets the beautiful Hilly Burns, (played by Jill Clayburgh) and ... Read the complete review

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