Silver Streak is a 1976 American thriller comedy film about a murder on a Los Angeles-to-Chicago train journey.

A shady art dealer is profiting from forged works of Rembrandt and is willing to kill in order to maintain secrecy about his crimes.

Aboard the Silver Streak train to Chicago for his sister's wedding, book editor George Caldwell meets salesman Bob Sweet and Hilly Burns, the secretary to Rembrandt historian Professor Schreiner.

Determined to help Hilly, George follows the tracks until he finds a farmer, who flies him ahead of the Silver Streak in her biplane so he can reboard.

Once back on the train, George sees Hilly with art dealer Roger Devereau and assumes they are romantically involved.

On foot again, he encounters the local sheriff, who finds his story unbelievable and tries to arrest him as a suspect in Stevens's murder.

George and Grover part on good terms before Donaldson halts the Silver Streak, evacuates the passengers, and surrounds it with police.

A firefight ensues; Whiney is wounded, and George, aided by the returning Grover, reboards the train to kill Johnson and rescue Hilly.

Devereau seizes the controls, sets the train to full speed, and throws Whiney off before George mortally wounds him.

With the Silver Streak out of control, George and a porter uncouple the passenger cars, activating their brakes, but the runaway engine crashes into Chicago's central station, causing massive destruction.

Alan Ladd Jr. and Frank Yablans at 20th Century Fox didn't want to wait and bought the script for a then-record $400,000.

[11] Ruth Batchelor of the Los Angeles Free Press described it as a "fabulous, funny, suspenseful, wonderful, marvelous, sexy, fantastic trip on a train, with the most lovable group of characters ever assembled.

Siskel, who gave the film just two stars, added that "the story isn't easy to follow" and that "I'm still not sure whether Clayburgh's character, secretary to Devereaux, was in on the hustle from the beginning.