Back in the 1970s the movies had it all, there were planes crashing down from the heavens, towering infernos, tales of world destruction, bad-ass cops, a cowboy in a Trans Am running beer across the south, King Kong, Godzilla, intergalactic wars, car chases, car crashes and in the case of todays featured trailer a passenger train crashing trough the Chicago rail terminal.
What a wonderful time to be alive!
The 1976 action/comedy Silver Streak stars Gene Wilder as a newly divorced book editor who decides to take a (what he was hoping to be a relaxing) train trip from Los Angeles to Chicago. What he gets instead is action packed thrill ride of trip in which he falls in love with a secretary (Played by Jill Clayburgh), witnesses a murder, gets framed for another murder, gets thrown off the train (a couple of times), has to elude the cops with the aide of small time thief (Played by Richard Pryor) while trying to get back on the train in order to save his girl from mobsters, gets into a shootout with said mobsters, ultimately saves the girl only to find himself on a runaway train that is going to crash.
Ultimately not a relaxing vacay.
