
How to Steal a Million(1966)
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.


“By train, by plane, by the edge of your seat - It's the most hilarious suspense ride of your life!”
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.

Gene Wilder
George Caldwell

Jill Clayburgh
Hildegard 'Hilly' Burns

Richard Pryor
Grover Muldoon

Patrick McGoohan
Roger Devereau

Ned Beatty
Bob Sweet

Clifton James
Sheriff Chauncey

Ray Walston
Mr. Edgar Whiney

Stefan Gierasch
Professor Schreiner & Johnson

Len Birman
Chief

Valerie Curtin
Plain Jane
Silver Streak is a comedy, crime, romance, thriller, action film released in 1976 exploring themes of two man army, kansas, usa, train, theft, false accusations, semiautomatic pistol. Directed by Arthur Hiller, it stars Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor. A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
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