What It's About:

On a cross-country train trip to Chicago, book editor George Caldwell (Wilder) meets pretty young Hilly Burns (Jill Clayburgh), whose employer is working to foil a master art forger. Later that evening, George witnesses someone tossing the body of Hilly's boss from the train, but no one believes him. Targeted by the killers, he escapes only to be arrested by a local-yokel sheriff, and must flee again with the help of petty thief Grover Muldoon (Pryor).

Why I Love It:

A diverting, infectious Hitchcock spoof mixing romance, intrigue and murder on a cross-country train trip, Hiller's "Streak" was a box-office smash in 1976. Pairing Wilder and Pryor for the first time (they'd make three pictures together), the movie gets a lot of comic mileage out of their nutty rapport, though Pryor doesn't show until the film is half over. Still, with a solid cast including McGoohan as the villainous Roger Devereau, Ned Beatty as a federal agent and Ray Walston as an old-time hood, "Silver Streak" is a fun, zany ride.