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Offline NS1200  
#1 Posted : 19 January 2014 14:52:35(UTC)
NS1200

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Silver Streak is a train movie from 1976.
It is one of the best train movies i have seen sofar.
It features a fictive passenger train with Diesel loco and streamliners.
This movie has everything you want from a movie:
Great actors,suspense,romance,humor,nice girl,spectacular action,good story line,wildlife rural scenes,and typical railroad music too!
The bad guy is after the stolen Rembrandt (Dutch painter) papers and thinks he can find them on the train.
The good guy travels by train to think his life over,so does the girl,they fall in love,of course.
The travelling salesman is a detective in disguise.
The clumsy thief meets the good guy and they try to catch in on the train in a Jaguar E type.
The final is spectacular!




Enjoy!

Paul.
Have more than you show,speak less than you know (Shakespeare).
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Offline biedmatt  
#2 Posted : 19 January 2014 15:43:16(UTC)
biedmatt

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Location: Southwest Ohio
I saw it in the theater as a teen. Wilder and Pryor are great together. Wonder what Blazing Saddles would have been with Richard (a co-writer and Brooks' choice) as Bart? I digress... Anyway, Silver Streak is great except for Wilder's pants. What the hell were we thinking back then?

Edit: "What do you mean you ain't never milked a cow before? You're a grown man".
Matt
Era 3
DB lokos, coaches and freight cars from across Europe
But I do have the obligatory (six) SBB Krocs
ECoS 50200, all FX and MFX decoders replaced with ESU V4s, operated in DCC-RailCom+ with ABC brake control.
With the exception of the passenger wagens with Marklin current conducting couplers, all close couplers have been replaced with Roco 40397.
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Offline NS1200  
#3 Posted : 19 January 2014 18:45:27(UTC)
NS1200

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Very hard to find complete movie clips for this movie,apart from some trailers.
Apparently,copyright is well protected.
Need to buy it on DVD.
Come to think of it,the cast was superb.
I think during this movie i fell in love with the nose of Jill Clayburgh!
Bad guy Patrick Mcoohan was known for his cold stone hearted eyes,he also starred in the brilliant TV series "The Prisoner".



Salesman/detective Ned Beatty also starred in another great movie called Deliverance,together with Burt Reynolds in a very not him kind of role.




The seven feet tall guy with the steel teeth also starred in at least two James Bond movies.



And,of course,Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.

One of the very few movies showing the USA streamliner coaches in action.

Nice!
Have more than you show,speak less than you know (Shakespeare).
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Offline kbvrod  
#4 Posted : 19 January 2014 18:49:51(UTC)
kbvrod

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Originally Posted by: biedmatt Go to Quoted Post
I saw it in the theater as a teen. Wilder and Pryor are great together. Wonder what Blazing Saddles would have been with Richard (a co-writer and Brooks' choice) as Bart? I digress... Anyway, Silver Streak is great except for Wilder's pants. What the hell were we thinking back then?

Edit: "What do you mean you ain't never milked a cow before? You're a grown man".


Pryor was one of the writers of the movie and created the Mongo characterBigGrin The studio,Warner Brothers felt that Richard was 'too famous' at the time to play Black Bart.

"Has to do with choo-choo." LOL

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Offline EMD_GP7  
#5 Posted : 19 January 2014 22:18:59(UTC)
EMD_GP7


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Location: U.K. Midlands
Hi all.
There was a previous film "Silver Streak" from 1934.
This featured the Burlington "Zephyr" and the now sold out Con-Cor set includes a DVD of the film.

Link. http://con-cor.com/silverstreak.html

I have a Con-Cor H0 scale Zephyr but it is the earlier set and not the set including the DVD.
Colin.
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Offline Frankenbahner  
#6 Posted : 20 January 2014 00:14:00(UTC)
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Location: Nuremberg, Bavaria
The final scene of "Silver Streak" remembers me of another film where a train got out of control, because the engineer spilled his coffee, which then destroyed the on-board computer....

Getting faster and faster, the train was in danger of derailing in a sharp curve deep in the woods...

Unfortunetaly, a large hospital serving hundreds of patients was located there - just in the middle of nowhere...

Regards,
Florian
H0 3-rail AC with DCC, MM and mfx, 2-rail DC streetcars, and N gauge
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Offline mike c  
#7 Posted : 20 January 2014 03:34:19(UTC)
mike c

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Location: Montreal, QC
The train scenes in "Silver Streak" were AFAIR filmed on CP Rail's "The Canadian" and the Station footage was Toronto's Union Station.

Regards

Mike C
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Offline NS1200  
#8 Posted : 21 January 2014 06:39:20(UTC)
NS1200

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Bought the movie on DVD for Euro 15.- from Bol.com in Holland.
Have more than you show,speak less than you know (Shakespeare).
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