Silver Streak (1976)

GENE WILDER gets on a train – the Silver Streak – and opens a door on secretary JILL CLAYBURGH in her slip.

GENE WILDER

(blushing)

Um…darn this latch.

JILL CLAYBURGH

(suggestively)

I give great…phone.

JILL CLAYBURGH and GENE WILDER down a couple glasses of champagne and kiss with their eyes open while sharing sensual gardening tips. The mood is ruined when GENE WILDER sees a dead guy – JILL CLAYBURGH’s boss, THE PROFESSOR – fall off the roof right outside the window.

 

JILL CLAYBURGH

Relax! It’s your eyes playing tricks on you.

JILL CLAYBURGH believes GENE WILDER, however, when he’s thrown off the goddamn train multiple times because he’s stumbled across bad guy PATRICK MCGOOHAN’s plot concerning some mysterious “Rembrandt letters”. GENE WILDER sneaks back on the train with the help of thief RICHARD PRYOR, who teaches him how to be a stereotypical black dude with shoe polish and a Rasta hat. GENE WILDER and JILL CLAYBURGH are soon held hostage by PATRICK MCGOOHAN, who burns the Rembrandt letters.

 

PATRICK MCGOOHAN

Splendid! Now let’s work out a plan where I pin this whole mess on you and you die.

 

Meanwhile, the STATE POLICE know all about PATRICK MCGOOHAN’s shenanigans and arrange an emergency stop so all the passengers can get off, which they do – -except for GENE WILDER, JILL CLAYBURGH, RICHARD PRYOR, and PATRICK MCGOOHAN. A shoot out ensues until PATRICK MCGOOHAN gets his head chopped off by an oncoming train. Now the Silver Streak is a runaway and smashes right through Chicago’s railway station.

 

GENE WILDER

But we’re still alive!

RICHARD PRYOR leaves in a tiny stolen car and GENE WILDER and JILL CLAYBURGH make out. Fin.