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Silver Streak (DVD, 2004)
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Leading Role: Gene Wilder
Director: Arthur Hiller
Rating: Rated PG
Release Date: Dec 2004
Format: DVD
UPC: 024543114901
Product ID: EPID43548808
Description: A cross-country express train is the setting for this very engaging mystery-comedy. Wilder plays an editor who gets involved in a murder plot. Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound.
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Another good train flickReview created: 06/02/06
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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.
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.
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