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The Silver Streak from TYCO Easily one of TYCOs biggest contributions to many late 1970s Christmases was The Silver Streak No. Gene Wilder Richard Pryor and Scratman Crothers together as one save the Silver Streak while the diesel engine crashes into the train station of Chicago.

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This is the same spot as above only the angle is wrong due to the fence.

. In later shots of the runaway train theres no sign of his body or of any blood and the door has somehow closed itself. Silver Streak was a good and hilarious movie for scenes and the actors Wilder and Pryor. But the real highlight is the sequence in which Pryor - with shoe polish in hand - attempts to instruct Wilder on how to pass for a jive black dude so that he could sneak back on board the train.

Book editor George Caldwell takes a train trip from Los Angeles to Chicago and thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. SILVER STREAK trots out two really memorable scenes. Unless you had that cast and put them in a better movie.

I keep hoping it will show up on Turner Classic Movies one of these days. The Fugitive has some really great shots of railroad action especially in sloooowwww motion. Nearing a climax in the movie the out of control train speeds past.

Silver Streak 1976 Exterior shots of the train set in the rural western US. When Devereaux is shot by the cop in the helicopter hes alone in the Silver Streaks engine compartment leaning out the open door. Runaway Train is also a good movie with Wilford Brimley.

The crew of the Pioneer Zephyr diesel train has only a few hours to deliver an iron lung to an injured man at the Boulder Dam construction site. Would watch Silver Streak again if I had it recorded. Silver Streak also features Ned Beatty Scatman Crothers Fred Willard and Ray Walston.

With Burlington Zephyr Sally Blane Charles Starrett William Farnum. Except that Wilder has no rhythm. With Gene Wilder Jill Clayburgh Richard Pryor Patrick McGoohan.

One is the spectacular runaway train wreck which ends the movie. The GSL car dealer sign is a city landmark. Hes then hit by an oncoming engine.

The Silver Streak just west of downtown Calgary. Interiors were shot in a studio with the sets mounted on rubber tires so they could be rocked. That first Silver Streak was a pretty cool little B-movie with a silly but exciting high speed train trip to deliver an iron lung at the end.

Directed by Thomas Atkins. Were filmed on the Canadian Pacific line from the Crowsnest Pass to Lethbridge Alberta. It goes on way too long but at least it ends with the train barelling into the Chicago train terminal with some fairly impressive 76 special effects.

Heres a fun remake of the train crash in the movie Silver StreakLink To Video. 903 this train release included much appeal to TYCOs target audience. On a long-distance train trip a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed or at least pushed off the train.

Directed by Arthur Hiller. From its chrome-plated Alco Century 430 diesel to the Nite-Glow decoration for the then-new Operating Piggyback Loader-Unloader No. Streak -- the first 1934 The Silver Streak used the articulated Zephyr set for the exterior shots.

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