Silver Streak (1976)
Director:
Arthur Hiller
Tagline:
« By plane, by train, by the edge of your seat, it’s the most hilarious suspense ride of your life! »
Actors:
George
Hilly
Grover
Devereau
Sweet
Rating:
(23’598 votes)
(23’598 votes)
Quotes:
« George Caldwell: You stupid, ignorant son of a bitch, dumb bastard. Jesus Christ. I've met some dumb bastards in my time but you outdo them all.
»
[George is pretending to be a black man in order to evade the police]
« George Caldwell: I don't think we're going to make it past the cops.
»
« Grover Muldoon: We'll make it past the cops. I just hope we don't see no Muslims.
»
« George Caldwell: I can't pass for Black.
»
« Grover Muldoon: Who you tellin'? I didn't say I was gonna make you Black. I said I was gonna get you on the train. Now we got to make them cops think you're Black.
»
[rubs shoe polish on George's face]
« George Caldwell: It'll never work. Never.
»
« Grover Muldoon: What, you afraid it won't come off?
»
Trailer:
Silver Streak
Runtime:114 minutes
Plots:
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance–but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
A somewhat-daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man being thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts to investigate on his own, but all he accomplishes is getting the killer to pursue him.
George Caldwell is an overworked author taking the “Silver Streak” from Los Angeles to Chicago. His problem is not getting on the train, but staying on it. After witnessing a dead man being thrown off the train, George must find out the truth behind the murder. By plane, by train, and by car, George and his unlikely sidekick, thief Grover Muldoon, must solve the mystery without having to be thrown off the train–and save Caldwell’s new girlfriend, Hilly Burns.
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