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''Silver Streak'' is a 1976 comedy-thriller film about a murder on a Los Angeles-to-Chicago train journey. It was directed by Arthur Hiller and stars Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor, with Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty, Clifton James and Richard Kiel in supporting roles. The film score is by Henry Mancini. This film marked the first pairing of Wilder and Pryor, who would later be paired in three more films. ==Plot== Book editor George Caldwell (Wilder) travels from Los Angeles to Chicago for his sister's wedding aboard a train called the ''Silver Streak''. On board, George meets a vitamin salesman named Bob Sweet (Beatty) and a woman named Hilly Burns (Clayburgh). Hilly works for Professor Schreiner, a well-known art historian who is on a publicity tour for his new book about Rembrandt. Hilly and George meet after George stumbles through the door of their adjoining rooms, catching her in a state of undress. Later that evening they have dinner and drinks together and then retire to her room for a night of romance. George sees a dead body dangling outside the window of the compartment and then falling away. But he is drunk and Hilly insists he must have imagined it. In the morning, he sees Schreiner's book with the author's photo, and realizes the professor was the dead man. Schreiner's killers are Johnson (Gierasch), Edgar Whiney (Walston), and Reace (Kiel). George goes to Schreiner's room, and Reace throws him off the train near the Arizona–New Mexico border. George meets a farmer (Benson) and they overtake the train in her biplane. George sees Hilly with Johnson (who is impersonating Schreiner), Whiney, and art dealer Roger Devereau (McGoohan) who is holding Hilly as a secret hostage. Devereau apologizes to George for the "misunderstanding" involving Reace. After mentioning "the Rembrandt Letters," Johnson says he will return to his room for a glass of Scotch. George goes to the club car and begins drinking heavily, confiding in Sweet about his misadventure. Sweet reveals himself as an undercover FBI agent named Stevens. He confirms George's suspicions: the real Schreiner didn't drink alcohol. Devereau is a criminal who passes himself off as an art expert, and Whiney, Reace, and Johnson work for him. His plan is to have Johnson, disguised as Schreiner, discredit the book that exposes Devereau for authenticating two forgeries as original Rembrandts. They find an envelope containing letters written by Rembrandt, proving Devereau's guilt, Stevens then warns George that he could be killed by Devereau too because he told Devereau that Schreiner was murdered, But then Reace kills Stevens, who he thought was George. A conductor (Crothers) enters George's room and sees Stevens' body and George holding Stevens' gun, and thinks George killed Stevens. Reace finds George and chases him all over the train, inside and on top. When Reace is about to shoot George, he is killed by George with a spear gun; then George is knocked off the train again by an overhead signal. On foot again, George finds the local sheriff (James), he tells him about Devereau's men killing Schreiner and Stevens, but then the Sheriff gets a phone call about George killing Stevens, then the Sheriff tells George that the police are after him for the murder of Stevens, but he escapes and steals the Sheriff's car, which was transporting thief Grover T. Muldoon (Pryor). George and Grover work together to reach the train in Kansas City. When they get to the train station, they see that police were looking for George, so Grover disguises George as a black man and they get by the police and board the train. Back on the train. George learns that Devereau must get off not in Chicago, but in Rockdale instead. George is captured but he and Hilly are rescued from Devereau's room by Grover, disguised as a steward. After a shootout, George and Grover jump off the train and are arrested by the police and taken to a train station, where they meet federal agent Donaldson (Birman), who tells them that he and the police knew all along that George didn't kill Stevens; that Donaldson sent police to Dodge City to pick up George for protection; and that Donaldson invented the news story about Stevens' murder. Donaldson tells George that Devereau is already under suspicion in another case. George tells Donaldson about Devereau's plan, and Donaldson has to stop the train before Devereau's stop in Rockdale and plan a attack on the train with George, Grover and his men. He calls the engineer and tells him to stop at a junction and get all of the passengers off the train, Once the train has stopped and the passengers are off, another shootout ensues. George boards the train a fourth time, with Grover, as Devereau climbs onto the locomotive and orders the engineer to start moving. An agent shoots Whiney, George shoots Johnson, and Devereau shoots the engineer and places a toolbox on the dead man's brake pedal. Devereau is then shot by Donaldson, falls halfway out of the engine cabin, and is decapitated by an oncoming freight train. Devereau and his men are gone, but with no one alive on the locomotive and the pedal depressed, the train is now a runaway. To make matters more dire, Devereau's men had also disabled the emergency brakes. With the help of the conductor (whom Hilly tells that George was innocent of Steven's murder), George uncouples the passenger cars from the engine. The engine smashes through the end-of-track barrier and into the terminal, spectacularly destroying everything in its path. In the confused aftermath, Grover steals a sports car on display in the terminal and drives away, and George and Hilly leave together. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Silver Streak (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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