Silver Streak is a 1976 comedy, action and mystery film about murder on a Los Angeles-to-Chicago train journey. It stars Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan and Ned Beatty and is directed by Arthur Hiller. The film score is by Henry Mancini. This film marked the first pairing of Wilder and Pryor, who would become a well-known comedy duo. The climax of the film includes footage of an out-of-control train crashing through the wall of Union Station in Chicago.

Synopsis

Saying he "just wanted to be bored," book editor George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) travels from Los Angeles to Chicago aboard a train called the Silver Streak. As the trip begins, George meets a man who calls himself Bob Sweet (Ned Beatty) and has dinner with a woman named Hilly Burns (Jill Clayburgh) who works for Professor Schreiner, an art historian who is publicizing his new book on Rembrandt. After dinner, George and Hilly go to Hilly's room.