Colt detective special 1st generation fbi agent bob sweet, posing as a vitamin salesman on the silver streak, carries a first generation colt detective special in a waist holster. The original zephyr trainset was used for the exterior shots in the film, while interior scenes were filmed on a sound stage in hollywood. Silver streak movie behind the scenes off the beaten. Would watch silver streak again if i had it recorded. Silver streak, director arthur hillers homage to hitchcock, teamed up comic funnymen gene wilder and richard pryor in a comedy filled with intrigue, action, suspense, and a memorable train crash at the end. Silver streak internet movie firearms database guns in. Yes, wilder did wear a blackface in the moviesilverstreak, but it was not representat. Silver streak 1976 arthur hiller cast and crew allmovie. Dexter, who in the films most moving scene ruminates over the brief but. Coming on to the scene to rival the success of rin tin tin, silver streak was a humanly intelligent police dog with a long pedigree, the last in a great line that appeared in film aside from police training, his education also included army red cross work. He gives it to george caldwell gene wilder, but caldwell drops it while climbing outside the baggage car. He gets caught up, think hes been framed for murder, meets up with a thief, grover played by richard pryor and ends up on a a runaway train that crashes through union station in chicago. Caldwell later grabs the detective special that the villian, art dealer roger devereau patrick mcgoohan. Find out about all the goofs from silver streak 1976 on imdb.
For the film, the burlington route nameplate on the trains nose was replaced with one that read silver streak. On a longdistance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train. In perhaps the movies most famous scene, in the bathroom of a train station, pryors character puts black shoe polish, sunglasses, and a hat to make wilders character look african american and thus escapes the watchful eye of police. At age two, he had an intelligence that startled several professors from the university of. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing silver streak near you. Its a comedy that teams up, once again, gene wilder and richard pryor, who were the best things in the big 1977 hit silver streak. Blackface is what whites who performed in minstrel shows back in the 1800s and early 1900s wore to reference blacks and is today looked upon as being racist. Gene wilder plays dave, the deaf owner of a newsstand, who hires wally pryor, a blind gambler, to work for him. The silver streak 1934 cast and crew a train engineer charles starrett speeds crosscountry with an iron lung for his boss son hardie albright, with a killer on board. Probably the main film for wilder and pryor in their careers but in my opinion not their best film together, second best behind stir crazy. Silver streak the cinetrains project trains in the.
In this scene two of the main characters leap from the moving train, landing in the waters below. Silver streak is een amerikaanse komische film uit 1976. Silver streak is the first of four movies gene wilder and the late richard pryor starred in together. Silver streak movie trains magazine trains news wire. Parents need to know that silver streak is a 1976 movie in which gene wilder and richard pryor team up to stop a murderous art thief on a runaway train. Stir crazy seems to change its mind, halfway through, about the kind of movie it wants to be. These then pictures from the 1976 movie silver streak arent that terribly interesting and normally wed ignore them as being not worth a report. Silver streak cast and crew cast photos and info fandango. A 2 minute recut trailer of of a favorite movie of mine, silver streak. Grover has just told george they have to jump from the train no. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing the inlaws silver streak near you. Gene wilder is wellknown, but possibly not in the role of the cheesy romantic who croons be nasty to the nasturtiums in pretty jill clayburghs delicate ear, while the plot thickens with the body of a murdered art history professor falling off the roof of. Silver streak 1976 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and. Silver streak 1976 while on a crosscountry train ride, overworked book editor george caldwell gene wilder begins an unexpected romance with an enigmatic woman named hilly burns jill clayburgh.
Silver streak was a good and hilarious movie for scenes and the actors, wilder and pryor. Silver streak, the trainheist buddy comedy that marked the first of wilders four. See more ideas about richard pryor, 1976 movies and photo and video. Silver streak 1976 movie mistakes, goofs and bloopers. Silver streak 1976 bloopers, mistakes, errors in continuity, plot holes, anachronisms, spoilers and more. My favorite part of silver streak has always been whenever gene wilder is thrown from the train, he quickly gets up, ready to leap, movie magic has us confident. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of silver streak with exclusive. With gene wilder, richard pryor, jill clayburgh, patrick mcgoohan. The wellchosen supporting cast includes william farnum as oldtime railroad man b. Wallys bookie comes to the newsstand and is shot by a mysterious woman, eve joan severance, but, before dying, he drops a priceless coin into daves cigar box till. The movie that popped up in my mind when the news came, though, was a different one than those hits. Silver streak 1976 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. A man gene wilder meets a woman jill clayburgh, a thief richard pryor and killers on a train. See more ideas about jill clayburgh, richard pryor and movies.
With burlington zephyr, sally blane, charles starrett, william farnum. The fugitive has some really great shots of railroad action, especially in sloooow motion. When the historian goes missing caldwell sees him dead but no one. Heres yet another then and now from the 1976 movie silver streak, a fun little tale of mystery and intrigue on board a transcontinental passenger train.
The silver streak is a 1934 film loosely based on the recordsetting dawntodusk run of the pioneer zephyr on may 26, 1934. A boxoffice smash, silver streak paved the way for the equally successful 1980 wilderpryor. I really like this movie, it has an excellent cast and a great story. It gives them crazy things to do, like working as performing chickens, but it also gives them interesting characters.
The silver streak 1934 a train engineer charles starrett speeds crosscountry with an iron lung for his boss son hardie albright, with a killer on board. Runaway train is also a good movie with wilford brimley. See more ideas about richard pryor, 1976 movies and jill clayburgh. Silver streak 1976 cast and crew while on a crosscountry train ride, overworked book editor george caldwell gene wilder begins an unexpected romance with an enigmatic woman named hilly burns. Find movie and film cast and crew information for silver streak 1976 arthur hiller on allmovie. However, with the discovery of some behind the scenes shots taken by excpr employee larry buchan while. Silver streak official trailer a derivative farce from one of the masters of derivation, colin higgins, who has made a career of studying hitchcock, transforming some of the plots to comedies. Silver streak movie then and now bridge jump off the. A silver fox is a term typically used to describe a man who rocks his gray with pride but we think these ladies own the look even better than men do.
Aug 24, 2012 photos and videos of the 1976 movie silver streak, starring, gene wilder, richard pryor. The crew of the pioneer zephyr diesel train has only a few hours to deliver an iron lung to an injured man at the boulder dam construction site. George caldwell wilder has a romantic encounter with hilly burns jill clayburgh, an art historians assistant. This is a hilarious 70s romp across america with some great actors from that era.