There's only about 100 movies you could never tire of and this is one of them. It has everything-the comedy really IS funny especially when the sheriff who's writing down the names of people who ended up murdered -because of a document exposing the Rembrandt book as a fake-asks in all seriousness-"who killed Rembdandt then?" but Wilder then escapes before it gets any nuttier! When Richard Prior decides the only way Wilder gets back on the train is to black himself up says "what are you worried about?That it might not come off!" is I suppose a nice touch of unpolitical correctness. Patrick McGoohan is here on the opposite side of the law-no longer the Secret Agent Man he's your run of the mill baddie who will shoot anybody in his way to amassing more wealth. The best part comes last-the train which has had its emegency brakes sabotaged by the villains-who also shot the driver out the cab door crashes straight through the booking office of the station leaving one unholy mess in its wake
Review of Silver Streak
