Film Screening: Silver Streak December 10, 2008

(Arthur Hiller, US 1976, 113 min.)

In one of the most successful ’70s comedies, editor and nervous traveler George (Gene Wilder) finds himself entangled in a murder plot on a train journey from Los Angeles to Chicago. He finds help in the form of street-smart car thief Grover (Richard Pryor, paired here with Wilder for the first time), and love with the villain’s secretary (Jill Clayburgh). The Hitchcockian story climaxes with a breathtaking special-effects train crash.

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