El expreso de Chicago

Título original: Silver Streak

1976
14
1h 54min

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Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor in El expreso de Chicago (1976)

Trailer for this off the rails comedy starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor

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Buddy Comedy Action Comedy Crime Romance Thriller

En un viaje en tren de larga distancia, un hombre encuentra el romance pero también un claro peligro de ser asesinado, o al menos expulsado del tren.En un viaje en tren de larga distancia, un hombre encuentra el romance pero también un claro peligro de ser asesinado, o al menos expulsado del tren.En un viaje en tren de larga distancia, un hombre encuentra el romance pero también un claro peligro de ser asesinado, o al menos expulsado del tren.

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6,9/10

22 mil

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Nominado para 1 premio Óscar
- 4 nominaciones en total

Curiosidades
Originally meant to be filmed in the United States. However, the National Rail Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) was fearful of adverse publicity, and refused to cooperate. As a result, the producers were forced to work with the Canadian Pacific Railway, using thinly disguised CPRail equipment and shooting exteriors along the CP Rail right-of-way.

Pifias
As George and Grover arrive in "Kansas City," a long shot of the city clearly shows the Calgary Tower, a unique and unmistakable landmark with no equivalent in Kansas City.

Citas
George Caldwell: You stupid, ignorant son of a bitch, dumb bastard. Jesus Christ. I've met some dumb bastards in my time but you outdo them all.

Versiones alternativas
When Silver Streak was first shown on TV, it had scenes that were not in the home video version, such as:
There's an extra scene of George and Rita talking. She inquires as to if he was riding hobo on the train.
A longer scene of Rita and George taking off in the airplane.
At the beginning when George arrives at the train station, the taxi driver comments that since George is going from Los Angeles to Chicago and a train that he must be a sucker for boredom.
A scene where the Silver Streak is pulling into the Kansas City station, which takes place right before Grover and George rush in.

Conexiones
Edited into The Fall Guy (1981)

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7/10

Funny film with references to some classics

Gene Wilder is the ordinary man caught up in murder and mayhem on the train "Silver Streak" in this 1976 comedy starring Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Ned Beatty, Ray Walston, and Patrick McGoohan. In a quasi-homage to Hitchcock, Wilder plays George Caldwell, who falls for the lovely Hilly (Jill Clayburgh) and finds himself mixed up in art fraud, missing letters of Rembrandt, and murder. Not only that, he keeps getting thrown off of the train. One of those times, he meets up with a criminal, Grover Muldoon (Pryor) who happens to be in the police car he steals. In the funniest scene in the film, Grover has George buy the cap, shoe polish, sunglasses and radio from a shoe polisher at the train station and makes George a black jiver so he can get by the feds.

There are lots of funny scenes in this film, but the best part of it is the chemistry between Wilder and Pryor, who became a successful screen team. This, however, is their best teaming. The bad guys are great. McGoohan and Walston act as if they're in a heavy duty suspense film, which makes them real and threatening. It works perfectly against the comic aspects of the film.

Hitchcock fans will see this as a mild takeoff on "North by Northwest." It is, but it stands on its own as well.