rammar-87515 Casual train ride to Chic-hole (Chicago) with abitta elegance soon to be mixed in w/adventure on a by-wing "sheep buzzin" plane w/Luvely Rita Milking Maid LOLs - Cast list NEEDS full names - like Caldwell w/George - Burns w/Hilly + Bob w/sweet ++ very nice nature scenery all the way thru

Ian (Flash Review)This goofy movie was the first of 4 where Wilder and Pryor team up for comedic jollies. This has an old school James Bond type of story to it. While getting lovey-dovey with a woman he put the moves on in the bar car of the train, an unsuspecting fellow played by Wilder, gets caught up in what he thinks has been a murder on the train. To his surprise, the woman ends up being partially involved with the murder. Wanting to keep her safe, he begins to investigate what funny business is going on. After many unusual scenarios, Pryor enters the picture as a captured burglar. They team up to uncover the truth. Very funny stuff incorporated into a pretty good story which feels very 70's. Amazingly, Pryor doesn't use any profanity. And Jaws from James Bond makes an imposing appearance. A must see for Wilder & Pryor fans.

SnoopyStyle George (Gene Wilder) takes a train ride to Chicago, and hits it off with beautiful Hilly (Jill Clayburgh). She's the secretary to a professor who has proof of Devereau's malfeasance. George first sees the professor getting killed, then he runs into Devereau's hatchet men.It's an interesting mystery and mildly amusing. The jokes are weak depending mostly on the flustered Gene Wilder. He does get thrown off the train a few times. Then it completely changes when Richard Pryor joins the party 1 hour in.It was the first time the duo is on the big screen together. Gene Wilder does the memorable iconic blackface. And it changes the tone of the movie. It's an odd transition, and it doesn't really fit. After all, it was murders and gunfights in a mystery thriller in the first half. If for nothing else, this marks the start of a great film bromance. It changed the course of movie history.

tavm Just rewatched this Hitchcockian comedy-thriller written by Colin Higgens and directed by Arthur Hiller on Netflix Streaming. Gene Wilder is George, a publisher who's on the title train where he meets a woman named Hilly played by Jill Clayburgh. Having just met, they start a romance. But during an intimate scene, George sees a dead body fall in front of the window. I'll stop there and just say how I thought the funny and dramatic and thrilling moments mixed well together. Like seeing Ned Beatty as Sweet believably change from a comic drunk lecher to a serious agent who's after the villain Devereau played by Patrick McGoohan. There's also some nice comic turns by dependable character actors like Lucille Benson as Rita Babtree and Clifton James as Sheriff Chauncey, no doubt familiar to James Bond fans from his appearances in Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun. Ray Walston as Mr. Whiney is also a treat to see. And how cool is it to see Richard Kiel with his metal teeth as Reace before also having those teeth in the other James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. Seeing Fred Willard as Jerry Jarvis who doesn't have any funny lines is strange but since this was early in his career, it's still good. Now here's the real reason this movie was sooo entertaining: Richard Pryor as Grover whether convincing George to don blackface in order to not get recognized as a wanted killer or talking back to the villain after being called a n!gger after making complimentary remarks about Hilly. The fact that he also had a scene changed from a white person being convinced of Wilder's disguise to a black person-in this case Nick Stewart's shoeshiner-not convinced at all was the height of hilarity to me. Since this is Black History Month, I feel like pointing out that besides Pryor and Stewart, J.A. Preston-who I just watched in The Spook Who Sat by the Door and also know him as Mayor Ozzie Cleveland on "Hill Street Blues"-as a waiter and Scatman Crothers as porter Ralston are the other African-Americans that appear here. Really, all I'll say is I highly enjoyed again Silver Streak and do highly recommend it. Oh, and what a wonderfully romantic Henry Mancini score there was, too!