{"id":39276,"date":"2017-09-15T14:08:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T21:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=39276"},"modified":"2021-02-03T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T02:18:08","slug":"silver-streak-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=39276","title":{"rendered":"Silver Streak (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;If there&#8217;s one thing I have learned from this trip it&#8217;s that you play the game, and take what you get.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Silver-Streak-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Silver-Streak-Poster-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Silver-Streak-Poster-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Silver-Streak-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Silver-Streak-Poster.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA book editor (Gene Wilder) meets a beautiful secretary (Jill Clayburgh) while travelling onboard a train called the Silver Streak. After seeing the man Clayburgh works for hanging dead outside a window, he panics but can&#8217;t get anyone to believe him &#8212; until a fellow passenger (Ned Beatty) reveals his true identity, and Wilder later meets a thief (Richard Pryor) who attempts to help him catch the murderers.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Gene Wilder Films<\/li>\n<li>Jill Clayburgh Films<\/li>\n<li>Mistaken or Hidden Identities<\/li>\n<li>Ned Beatty Films<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;No One Believes Me!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Richard Pryor Films<\/li>\n<li>Road Trip<\/li>\n<li>Trains and Subways<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nDirected by Arthur Hiller and scored by Henry Mancini, <em>Silver Streak<\/em> was the first of four on-screen pairings between comedians Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, who next teamed up for <em>Stir Crazy<\/em> (1980). Of <em>Silver Streak<\/em>, screenwriter Colin Higgins &#8212; best known for scripting <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=12984\"><em>Harold and Maude<\/em> (1971)<\/a> &#8212; stated in an interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silver_Streak_(film)\">&#8220;I had always wanted to get on a train and meet some blonde. It never happened, so I wrote a script&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; thus explaining the rather haphazard nature of the storyline, which tosses in every action-murder-mystery-romance convention in the book, plus race relations, a plucky female pilot, and a bit of a buddy theme. It&#8217;s competently made and acted, but doesn&#8217;t hold one&#8217;s attention in the same way as Hitchcock&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=7983\"><em>The Lady Vanishes<\/em> (1938)<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2826\">Sidney Lumet&#8217;s <em>Murder on the Orient Express <\/em>(1974)<\/a>, which it seems to aspire towards. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good use of a train as a primary locale<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Silver-Streak-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Silver-Streak-Still-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Silver-Streak-Still-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Silver-Streak-Still-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Silver-Streak-Still-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Silver-Streak-Still-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though you may want to check it out if you&#8217;re a fan of Wilder or Pryor. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075223\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/reviews\/21055\/silver-streak\/\">DVD Talk Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1593&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1976\/12\/09\/archives\/silver-streak-tarnishes-on-a-tiring-film-trip.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/film\/silver-streak\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If there&#8217;s one thing I have learned from this trip it&#8217;s that you play the game, and take what you get.&#8221; Synopsis: A book editor (Gene Wilder) meets a beautiful secretary (Jill Clayburgh) while travelling onboard a train called the Silver Streak. After seeing the man Clayburgh works for hanging dead outside a window, he panics but can&#8217;t get anyone to believe him &#8212; until a fellow passenger (Ned Beatty) reveals his true identity, and Wilder later meets a thief&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=39276\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39276"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68411,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39276\/revisions\/68411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}