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Released
1976 · FILM

Silver Streak

A neurotic book editor on a cross‑country train must expose a murder he witnessed before the unseen assassin silences him for good.

“By train, by plane, by the edge of your seat - It's the most hilarious suspense ride of your life!”

Directed by
Arthur Hiller
Written by
Colin Higgins
Runtime
114 min
ActionComedyCrime
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

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.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by David BrethertonShot by David M WalshScored by Henry ManciniDesigned by Alfred Sweeney

Box Office

1976 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 7.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$51.1M

Budget$6.5M
Worldwide gross$51.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Trans-Amerika-Expressde
  • El expreso de Chicagoes
  • Transamerica Expressfr
  • Wagons lits con omicidiit

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