Silver Streak

Silver Streak

6.7IMDb Score
Released:1976-12-03
Duration:114 min
Director:Arthur Hiller
Actors:Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty
Production:Frank Yablans Presentations, Miller-Milkis Productions, 20th Century Fox

Overview:

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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