Silver Streak
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Silver Streak is a 1976 film comedy starring Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan and Ned Beatty and directed by Arthur Hiller.
Publisher George Caldwell (Wilder) is traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago on the titular train, Silver Streak. Caldwell falls in love with secretary Hilly Burns (Clayburgh) but also bears witness to the murder of Burns' boss and, after being thrown off the train by some the murderers' thugs, must enlist the help of a thief (Pryor) to save their lives.
While loosely based on Amtrak trains, Amtrak was not involved with the filming of the movie. All exterior train shots were filmed on the Canadian Pacific (now CP Rail) line in Alberta despite ostensibly being set in the United States.
