Silver Streak (DVD, 2004)

One of those movies that you would always love to see playing on some cable station on a rainy day. And one of those movies that once you had seen it would ALWAYS stop when channel surfing and watch no matter where it was in the story. Rated PG but don't let that throw you. Certainly not a kid/teen movie. In fact refreshing to see a movie made so well that got by just fine without endless profanity. OK, so I was a little disappointed that they didn't show more of Jill Clayburgh back then but the quality of the movie more than makes up for that.

Best of all this was some of the greatest screen interaction of Wilder/Pryor ever. They play off each other just incredibly in this movie. And unlike Stir Crazy it doesn't fall apart and go in some strange direction half way through. If you like good comedy, good 70's comedy, wilder/pryor, etc. this is a MUST-HAVE for your collection.

A FEW FLAWS?

OK, maybe it runs a tad on the long side at almost 2 hours, especially if you are used to many of today's 90 minute quickies

A few minor plot holes maybe but nothing gaping that you see in osme movies that takes a huge leap, none of that here.

Honestly I can't see why anyone would not like this movie. Delivered to your door for under 10 bucks in just a few days from a decent seller. One word of advice? Stick with the seller with the HIGHEST FEEDBACK even at a cost of a few extra dollars. having gone the cheap route once, I won't do it again. Reward high feedback with your business. and BTW, 98% is not high as that comes out to one negative for every 50 sales. way too high for me

I had an old beat up self-taped one I would watch that was getting worse and finally bought this on DVD.

Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor & Jill Clayburgh, star in this action packed thriller on a moving train "The Silver Strek", where romance is blooming for Wilder & Clayburgh, but quickly set aside to solve the mystery of the murder of Clyburghs boss.
I won't spoil this for you, but I will say that many lives could be in grave danger by a very large passenger train hurdling towards a very busy train station.
A must see for Wilder & Pryor fans.

This is a hilarious 70s romp across America with some great actors from that era. Gene Wilder is well-known, but possibly not in the role of the cheesy romantic who croons "be nasty to the nasturtiums" in pretty Jill Clayburgh's delicate ear, while the plot thickens with the body of a murdered art history professor falling off the roof of the train just outside the cabin where they are making out. Wilder is soon ejected off the train and finds a friendly crop sprayer aviator who takes him to a stop further along the track, where he boards the train again while it's moving. The friendly vitamin salesman, Sweet, who is really a Federal agent, is after a British crook who takes the train by force with his gang of bad guys and the train ends up hurtling towards Chicago as a runaway. Sweet is caught in the crossfire. Richard Pryor champions the jive-talking nervous petty crook image as he and Wilder cavort in and out of the train station with Wilder posing as a Black guy with a transistor radio. Wilder sports a new set of clothes, purchased from a shoe-shine man (arranged by Pryor.) "Pay the man!" shouts Pryor, as Wilder takes yet another piece of garb for cash. It seems almost incongruous that not only should Gene Wilder's character come out of the adventure unscathed, three of the principals make a very scary, and quite unbelievable jump from one car to another on a swiftly moving train, but also that the screenplay should hold such a great happy ending. Well worth a watch if only to get a contrast from Gene Wilder's Charlie (and the Chocolate factory) character, where he is as completely different a character as only he can be!

A great movie that inspires me to want to ride a train right now today. A story about an ordinary person who rides the train to be bored and instead has the most excitement and adventure of his life in three days and also falls in love. A star studded cast, lots of humor, lots of good people, lots of bad ones too and one really awesome train wreck at the end. Something that makes you have more respect for the power of a train. A another great thing is you are never in the same place for long because you are moving around all the time. That's what I call adventure a trip down memory lane a look at the good old days which are now long gone and I miss them. There is nothing more romantic for a married couple to do then ride a train across the country. I thank the director and the actors for there performances and I only wish I could expierence those times myself. THANK YOU SETH WETZEL

Silver Streak is a favorite from my teen years. There are several reasons I like this movie:

1. It shares the name to another famous railroad movie: The Silver Streak from the 1930s. I have a copy of that movie too.

2. There are plenty of good film clips showing Canadian Pacific railroad equipment, painted for the fictional AMRoad.

3. While the plot has its flaws, it still is reasonably credible and moves along nicely. Also, I like the dialog about "200 tons of locomotive crashing through Central Station on its way to Marshal Fields."

4. Many railfans believe the idea for the crash scene was taken from an incident where a Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 electric smashed through Washington D.C. Union Station with the Federal in 1953.

5. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor also played very likable characters in this movie. This film was better written than some of the other films I have seen these two comics in.

6. Typical good-guy gets the girl film. Kind of like the 1951 film Denver and Rio Grande. Cute.

This is a good film for railfans.