Silver Streak is a 1976 American thriller comedy film about a murder on a Los Angeles-to-Chicago train journey. It was directed by Arthur Hiller, written by Colin Higgins, and stars Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor, with Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty, Clifton James, Ray Walston, Scatman Crothers, and Richard Kiel in supporting roles. The film score is by Henry Mancini. This film marked the first pairing of Wilder and Pryor, who were later paired in three other films.

Plot

Aboard the Silver Streak train to Chicago for his sister's wedding, book editor George Caldwell meets salesman Bob Sweet and Hilly Burns, the secretary to Rembrandt historian Professor Schreiner. George and Hilly share an instant attraction, and she invites him to her cabin. There, George witnesses Schreiner's body falling from the train’s roof through her window. Although Hilly doubts what he saw, George investigates Schreiner's compartment, where he encounters Whiney and Reace searching through Schreiner's belongings. When Whiney hints that Hilly may be in danger, the burly Reace throws George off the train. Determined to help Hilly, George follows the tracks until he finds a farmer, who flies him ahead of the Silver Streak in her biplane so he can reboard.