Jason Pettus Nov 9, 2024

Read my ★★ review of 1976's #SilverStreak, the first of the famous '70s cinematic team-ups of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, which unfortunately wasn't nearly as good as my childhood memories had this movie being.

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A ★★ review of Silver Streak (1976)

2024 movie viewings, #58. My recent watch of Richard Pryor’s 1986 autobiographical drama Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (my review) got me interested in going back and watching the ‘70s comedies he did with Gene Wilder, which is what made me as a Generation X kid first become a fan of his, long before I knew about his career as a stand-up; and I decided to start with the first one I myself ever watched, 1976’s Silver Streak, in which Wilder and Pryor get invited on the inaugural cross-country journey of a brand-new, cutting-edge “supertrain,” and accidentally stumble

The Curious PollsterSep 27, 2024

~ 1970s Movies ~
Vote for the best movie of the bracket.

#TaxiDriver - 76
#MeanStreets - 73
#SilverStreak - 76

#RobertDeniro #HarveyKeitel
#RichardPryor #GeneWilder

Taxi Driver
80%
Mean Streets
0%
Silver Streak
0%
Don't like any of them
20%
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Show threadThisLeeNobleSep 13, 2023
I’ve must blown my own mind by discovering Richard Keel (Jaws) essentially played Jaws in Silver Streak BEFORE he was in The Spy Who Loved Me.
AND it was the first time Wilder partnered with Pryor. #SilverStreak
RaurquizJun 11, 2023
#remembering #genewilder #Actor #willywonkaandthechocolatefactory #theproducers #blazingsaddles #youngfrankenstein #silverstreak #seenoevilhearnoevil #anotheryou #thewomaninred #thefriskokid #everythingyoualwayswantedtoknowaboutsex #theworldsgreatestlover #hankypanky