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Watch: Silver Streak 1976 123movies, Full Movie Online – A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him..
Plot: A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
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Ratings:

	6.9/10 Votes: 20,453
	81% | RottenTomatoes
	41/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 257 Popularity: 11.171 | TMDB

Reviews:

This one has it all
I first saw this movie in 1976 when I was all but about 13 years of age, with some friends in my home town (Dryden, Ontario) at the local “Royal” theatre, as it was known then. I just finished watching my VHS copy of it, which brings my total number of viewings up to 30-something…

Why do I like this film so much? It was the first movie I’ve seen that had it all: action, suspense, romance, a lot of laughs, but most of all – adventure. All of this helped manufacture a great storyline. In short, one of the most memorable movies I’ve ever seen, and I enjoy myself greatly with each repeated viewing. It made me a big fan of the Wilder/Pryor combination. It made me a huge fan of train travel. It made me a “road movie” fanatic.

A classic in my book. 9/10

Generally successful comedy thriller.
Gene Wilder is a passenger aboard the Silver Streak from Los Angeles to Chicago and meets an enchanting woman, Jill Clayburgh, and her art-expert supervisor and author, Stefan Gierasch. Gierasch is on his way to a convention of art historians where he is about to deliver a speech that will discredit and disenfranchise another passenger, Patrick McGoohan. So McGoohan and his goons simply shoot the professor in the head, throw his body off the train, and capture Jill Clayburgh with the intention of killing her later, after she’s been forced to put some effort into the service of their cause.

Wilder takes passing notice of the professor’s dead body as it drops past his window and seeks to solve the mystery. Richard Pryor is drawn into the story, or rather hauled in by his ears. McGoohan and Goons finally wind up with the McGuffin but it’s too late. The Feds have twigged. The story ends with the bad guys dead and a locomotive smashing through Chicago’s Union Station but happily missing the waiting room on whose benches I’ve spent so many happy hours asleep and waiting for my next connection. (I recommend the wonderful Greek restaurants a few blocks to the north. Avoid the taramasalata. If you find this recommendation useful, note that I accept donations. )

None of this story is to be taken seriously for a moment. It could have been lifted straight out of an inexpensive 1938 black-and-white comic mystery with Bob Hope, Chester Morris, and Mantan Moreland somewhere in the cast. Only this is in gorgeous color, more expensive, and the humor is updated. (Richard Pryor could be outrageous in his own, relatively quiet, self-deprecating way, and he was a fine mimic.) Jill Clayburgh is very appealing — compellingly beautiful but in a goofy way that undercuts the conventions that sustain the illusion of perfection. She has a slight, endearing lisp, and her cheeks are tucked up just beneath her lower lids.

Gene Wilder has a big head of fuzzy hair and his eyeballs seem ready to pop out on coiled springs, like a Halloween mask. He’s always either indignant or awed at the goings-on around him. I enjoyed him most when he swore because the curses stand in such contrast to his meekness. Thrown off the train (for the first time, but not the last), he climbs to his feet, gestures wildly, and shouts, “SON OF A *****!” He’s very easy to identify with.

Patrick McGoohan is not. Nobody could ever identify with Patrick McGoohan because nobody has ever been so unflappable — him and his serene blue eyes and his cracked, incisive baritone. One of his Goons is Richard Kiel, the ambulatory pituitary gland, nine feet tall and sporting a mouth full of golden Chiclets.

It’s kind of silly but it’s absorbing too because any viewer would want to see how the silliness turns out to be satisfying. Enjoyable and diverting. Kids who are old enough to appreciate, say, Bill Murray, but who have outgrown Jerry Lewis should get a kick out of it.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 54 min (114 min)
Budget 6500000
Revenue 51079064
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime
Director Arthur Hiller
Writer Colin Higgins
Actors Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 4 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Mitchell NC (train crash), Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5254)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm