This is one of those movies I never ever tire of. It's a plethora of genres in one: from screwball (when Hilly pours her drink down the inside of Sweet's pants) to catastrophe (the runaway engine crashing into and devastating the final station) and whatnot in between. Everybody's top notch: Kiel, Beatty, Mac Goohan, Clayburgh (one of my fave actresses) and of course Wilder and Pryor. And let's not forget how Mancini's movie score is so very essential to the movie's string of action! I wish it was available on record!
such a wonderful film. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor both so brilliantly funny each in their own right and together - they were just dynamite.5 star R.I.P. #GeneWilder. Heaven's gain is our immense loss. He will be sorely missed.
I remember when my parents recorded this for me on a VHS tape in 1984. I was five years old and obsessed with trains at the time, so I loved it! It has since remained one of my favorite movies.
I first came across this movie when it was premiered on German TV in 1982 or something. Me older brother took me to his room in the attic, which used to be all the rage among us younger siblings, to watch it. So on top of the fact that the film is highly enjoyable per se, I'm always preciously reminded of that long gone attic room scenery. Not forgetting that I too was (and remain) a fan of trains and trams. All of which is why this is really close to my heart.
I wish that 20th Century Fox would put out an unedited version of Silver Streak, and include the deleted scenes, like the train pulling into the station in Kansas City Kansas, and the longer dialouge between George and Rita before they take off in her airplane, that would be neat to include in a new DVD version of Silver Streak. :)
I can remember watching this in the 70s with my brother and laughing our asses off. Especially every time they threw him off the train and he yelled sunnuvabitch, that used to just kill us. Wilder and Pryor were hilarious
Silver Streak is one of my Favourite Films of all Times I Remember I saw this back in 1992 on Saturday Afternoon when I came home to Wembley Park Middlesex with my Daddy
One of best of 1976 Wilder, Pryer and Clayburgh hit all their marks. Must see bathroom scene with Pryer getting Wilder into face paint. Worth the watch....
The first time I've ever watch this movie I was 6 or 7 years old. So this movie reminds me my childhood and late nights watching movies on syndicated tv (before I get cable or sat tv) and spending time in family. Even my mother went to watched this movie back in it's theathrical release back in the late 1970's. Since then is one of my favorites movies I haven't found it yet in dvd in a store near my home as soon I found it I'll buy it!
. Sadly, they are......in fact, just about EVERYBODY who had a major, or even a minor role in this movie, is now gone. The only person I can think of who is still with us is Fred Willard, who played the asst. station mgr. (Chicago's Union Station) towards the end of the film. .
Last time I boarded the train in Reno I saw the train is now called the California Zephyr. There was a conductor probably in her twenties. I asked her, "Where's the Silver Streak?" She looked at me like I was from Mars and asked me, "What's the Silver Streak?" Once I arrived home, the first thing I did was order a copy of this movie.
I'm very sad beautiful Jill Clayburgh passed away at 66 on 5th Nov, 2010...What beautiful was Jill Clayburgh in Silver Streak 1976!!! RIP JILL CLAYBURGH
When I first watched this movie, on German TV at age 9, I instantly fell in love with Jill Clayburgh. Because not only is she strikingly beautiful, but she plays such a heart-warming part here. And it's not the typical main man's baby part.
I remember watching this movie annually when it would come on free tv in the early 1980s. Then my sister bought a DVD a decade ago that I refuse to give up. I don’t have a DVD player it broke a couple years ago!
@Goremeister100 I can see Keith Gamble's point. DVDs/Blu-rays are in fact mostly better, but sometimes you just don't wish for things to be upgraded. Instead, with a film of old, one you yourself are old enough to remember, you might wish for the ambience of old. I totally understand that. It was for that very reason that I switched from CD back to vinyl.
a little more context than that. 1 he was setup for it by a black dude. 2 you laughed at how ridiculuous and awkward he was, next to someone being 'normally' black, so there was no mistaking that they were making fun of black people's behavior, but specifically at WIlder's interpretation of it. The context is key.
@@mainmac you are right on the mark with that comment! Funny how people like @niki try to use the word "woke" while clearly misinterpreting the word and the context of the movie...
Imagine the anti-woke crowd thinking it's okay to be racist and still consider blackface to be acceptable. You absolutely can do that today without looking like a bigot.
@cimmeriabastardsword You can get this movie through Netflix. I watched it on Netflix and its totally halarious!!! Its serious but yet funny at the same time.
a little more context than that. 1 he was setup for it by a black dude. 2 you laughed at how ridiculuous and awkward he was, next to someone being 'normally' black, so there was no mistaking that they were making fun of black people's behavior, but specifically at WIlder's interpretation of it. The context is key.
Very different times and as @Mainmac said so perfectly, context is everything. Gene's character was being put in "black face" by a BLACK man, also the humor of it was based on the black man making fun of Gene for his lack of black charisma... way different comparison....
R.I.P Gene Wilder. Long live Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, The best comedy duo ever.
This is one of those movies I never ever tire of. It's a plethora of genres in one: from screwball (when Hilly pours her drink down the inside of Sweet's pants) to catastrophe (the runaway engine crashing into and devastating the final station) and whatnot in between. Everybody's top notch: Kiel, Beatty, Mac Goohan, Clayburgh (one of my fave actresses) and of course Wilder and Pryor. And let's not forget how Mancini's movie score is so very essential to the movie's string of action! I wish it was available on record!
such a wonderful film. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor both so brilliantly funny each in their own right and together - they were just dynamite.5 star R.I.P. #GeneWilder. Heaven's gain is our immense loss. He will be sorely missed.
RIP Gene, you were a funny man and a great actor.
Gene and Pryor in one of the greatest feelgoodmovies ever.
richard pryor and gene wilder were always the best together in movies
I remember when my parents recorded this for me on a VHS tape in 1984. I was five years old and obsessed with trains at the time, so I loved it! It has since remained one of my favorite movies.
Thumbs up! :-)
I first came across this movie when it was premiered on German TV in 1982 or something. Me older brother took me to his room in the attic, which used to be all the rage among us younger siblings, to watch it. So on top of the fact that the film is highly enjoyable per se, I'm always preciously reminded of that long gone attic room scenery. Not forgetting that I too was (and remain) a fan of trains and trams. All of which is why this is really close to my heart.
I wish that 20th Century Fox would put out an unedited version of Silver Streak, and include the deleted scenes, like the train pulling into the station in Kansas City Kansas, and the longer dialouge between George and Rita before they take off in her airplane, that would be neat to include in a new DVD version of Silver Streak. :)
I can remember watching this in the 70s with my brother and laughing our asses off. Especially every time they threw him off the train and he yelled sunnuvabitch, that used to just kill us. Wilder and Pryor were hilarious
I remember first seeing this film as a 15 year old at school, and this film had me on the edge of my seat
You saw it in cinema?
I remember when this came out. I was 13... Funny as hell.
Silver Streak is one of my Favourite Films of all Times I Remember I saw this back in 1992 on Saturday Afternoon when I came home to Wembley Park Middlesex with my Daddy
"Stir crazy" was for me by far the movie where i got the most pain in my stomach from laughing
One of best of 1976 Wilder, Pryer and Clayburgh hit all their marks. Must see bathroom scene with Pryer getting Wilder into face paint. Worth the watch....
The first time I've ever watch this movie I was 6 or 7 years old. So this movie reminds me my childhood and late nights watching movies on syndicated tv (before I get cable or sat tv) and spending time in family.
Even my mother went to watched this movie back in it's theathrical release back in the late 1970's.
Since then is one of my favorites movies I haven't found it yet in dvd in a store near my home as soon I found it I'll buy it!
Scatman Crothers! A voice like no other
Both Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor are very sadly missed
As are (now) Jill Clayburgh, Patrick McGoohan and Ned Betty.
One of my favorite movies as a kid. Quite sad the lead actors are all gone now.
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Sadly, they are......in fact, just about EVERYBODY who had a major, or even a minor role in this movie, is now gone.
The only person I can think of who is still with us is Fred Willard, who played the asst. station mgr. (Chicago's Union Station) towards the end of the film.
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Last time I boarded the train in Reno I saw the train is now called the California Zephyr. There was a conductor probably in her twenties. I asked her, "Where's the Silver Streak?" She looked at me like I was from Mars and asked me, "What's the Silver Streak?"
Once I arrived home, the first thing I did was order a copy of this movie.
i seen it in the show! The audience was laughing so hard including me!
Had me in stitches 40yrs ago .........A Genious
Good Family Entertainment .🕯🕯🕯
I'm very sad beautiful Jill Clayburgh passed away at 66 on 5th Nov, 2010...What beautiful was Jill Clayburgh in Silver Streak 1976!!! RIP JILL CLAYBURGH
When I first watched this movie, on German TV at age 9, I instantly fell in love with Jill Clayburgh. Because not only is she strikingly beautiful, but she plays such a heart-warming part here. And it's not the typical main man's baby part.
One of my top 5 movies of all time !
I remember watching this movie annually when it would come on free tv in the early 1980s. Then my sister bought a DVD a decade ago that I refuse to give up. I don’t have a DVD player it broke a couple years ago!
RIP Gene Wilder. This is his greatest film
I just popped this in on the good ol' VCR. I am a fan of this duo, but this one is a first time watch for me.
Are you typing from the 80's? VCR??? LOL! Try a blu-ray. It will put that crappy tape to shame.
@Goremeister100 I can see Keith Gamble's point. DVDs/Blu-rays are in fact mostly better, but sometimes you just don't wish for things to be upgraded. Instead, with a film of old, one you yourself are old enough to remember, you might wish for the ambience of old. I totally understand that. It was for that very reason that I switched from CD back to vinyl.
When my sister was 3 when she first saw this, She says "That's Willy Wonka, But where's his Chocolate Factory?".
R.I.P. Richard Kiel
Whenever I ride a train, I keep hoping I'll meet a Hilly Burns...without being thrown off the train by bad guys.
Best movie that pair ever made. it had it all. Thanks for sharing. ;)
AWESOME MOVIE!!!!! Wish they would make another one.
your comment almost mirrors my own, my mom took us to the drive in on a whim to see this movie and its been one of my favorites ever since
Silver Streak was a send up of Hitchcock's North By Northwest with Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason and Martin Landau!
...and I never knew Willy Wonks knew so much about Gardening.
I had this on VHS in the 90s when I was a little kid
rip gene wilder gonna miss u
... and they show the train crashing at the end? Whyyyyyy?!
Only comes alive when Pryor appears.
Trailers back then gave you a summary of the plot.
This was basically a sped up version of the movie.
My late uncles favourite movie
_Ohhhh_ _come_ _on_ _Steve_ _I'm_ _sure_ _you've_ _had_ _some_ _similiar_ _experience_
Let's see who gets it. 😆
Really top notch movie. Am I right about this one being written by an actual thriller writer? I got told that, and also they got a pretty big budget.
RIP WILDER !
Don't watch this untill you have seen movie
Unstoppable
Willy Wonka fighting Jaws!
First time for everything!
I feel like I just watched the fucking movie.
But they should have cut to black just before the train hit those stoppers.
Jeez, they really tried to pack alot into this movie..why not have a Roger Moore cameo too 😆
Funny film.
Left my Jag in Kansas Citg
rw:i guess in short for this film"Never a Dull Moment"
Imagine the “ woke “ crowd after Gene Wilder for doing black face.
What a legend !!!
a little more context than that. 1 he was setup for it by a black dude. 2 you laughed at how ridiculuous and awkward he was, next to someone being 'normally' black, so there was no mistaking that they were making fun of black people's behavior, but specifically at WIlder's interpretation of it. The context is key.
@@mainmac you are right on the mark with that comment! Funny how people like @niki try to use the word "woke" while clearly misinterpreting the word and the context of the movie...
Imagine the anti-woke crowd thinking it's okay to be racist and still consider blackface to be acceptable. You absolutely can do that today without looking like a bigot.
They show TOO much of the movie. (LOVE THE FILM)
Canadian Pacific on Trainz Simulator
i loved this movie 5 stars for train and girl
FILMED IN CALGARY! :)
BLAZING SADDLESSSSS!
no, Silver Streak.
We win BIIiIIg!🏆🏆✝️✝️💥
ha ha lol
I need that piano song,anyone has it?🥺😍
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@@CoryMatthew87 omg thank you Cory, you’ve saved my childhood dream😭🙏
go on itunes
love this movie, but they pretty much gave away everything in this trailer
I mean, if it was a newer movie that would suck... but I doubt anyone searching for a trailer to a nearly 50 year old movie is a first time viewer lol
@TI994A1984 I remember watched it for the first time on a local network
Amtrak Silver Streak
God--dammit
Love the film but every main actor has now passed. ;- /
well, the movie is nearly 50 years old... people don't live forever lol
@cimmeriabastardsword You can get this movie through Netflix. I watched it on Netflix and its totally halarious!!! Its serious but yet funny at the same time.
See that 2022? Gene Wilder did blackface and hell did not freeze over.
a little more context than that. 1 he was setup for it by a black dude. 2 you laughed at how ridiculuous and awkward he was, next to someone being 'normally' black, so there was no mistaking that they were making fun of black people's behavior, but specifically at WIlder's interpretation of it. The context is key.
Very different times and as @Mainmac said so perfectly, context is everything. Gene's character was being put in "black face" by a BLACK man, also the humor of it was based on the black man making fun of Gene for his lack of black charisma... way different comparison....
That's called confirmation bias, kiddo. The 70s were very different times. Now we know better not to do blackface.