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.
- 6.7
- 1976
- Released
- 1h 54m
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
Lucille Benson
Rita Babtree
Scatman Crothers
Ralston
Richard Kiel
Reace
Fred Willard
Jerry Jarvis
Delos V. Smith Jr.
Burt
Mathilda Calnan
Blue-Haired Lady
Margarita García
Mexican Mama-San
Henry Beckman
Conventioneer
Harvey Atkin
ConventioneerLloyd White
Porter
Ed McNamara
Benny
Raymond Guth
Night Watchman
John Daheim
Engineer #2Jack O'Leary
Fat Man #1Lee McLaughlin
Fat Man #2
Bill Henderson
Red CapTom Erhart
Cab DriverGordon Hurst
Moose
J.A. Preston
Waiter (uncredited)
Nick Stewart
ShoeshinerSteve Weston
ConventioneerWendy Girard
Girl on Train (uncredited)
Released
en
$6,500,000.00
$51,100,000.00
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- #false accusations
- #semiautomatic pistol
- #sleeping car
Reviews
**_Drama, romance, crime, mystery, comedy, adventure, suspense and action on a train_** A book editor traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago by rail (Gene Wilder) supposedly witnesses a crime while partying with a secretary (Jill Clayburgh). He suddenly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy. Richard Pryor plays a helpful thief, Ned Beatty a passenger, Patrick McGoohan a smooth art ex