Silver Streak is a 1976 comedy-thriller film about murder on a Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

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-to-Chicago train journey. It stars Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder is an American stage and screen actor, director, screenwriter, and author.Wilder began his career on stage, making his screen debut in the film Bonnie and Clyde in 1967. His first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1968 film The Producers...

, Jill Clayburgh

Jill Clayburgh

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, Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epithets...

, Patrick McGoohan

Patrick McGoohan

Patrick Joseph McGoohan was an American-born actor, raised in Ireland and England, with an extensive stage and film career, most notably in the 1960s television series Danger Man , and The Prisoner, which he co-created...

 and Ned Beatty

Ned Beatty

Ned Thomas Beatty is an American actor who has appeared in more than 100 films and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain and a Golden Globe Award; won a Drama Desk Award....

 and is directed by Arthur Hiller

Arthur Hiller

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. The film score

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 is by Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...

. This film marked the first pairing of Wilder and Pryor, who would be paired in three more films.
Saying he "just wanted to be bored", book editor George Caldwell (Wilder) travels from Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 to Chicago

Chicago

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 for his sister's wedding aboard a train called the Silver Streak.