Directed by Arthur Hiller
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Fox/Anchor Bay)
Gene Wilder is a mild-mannered publisher taking a cross-country train from LA to Chicago. His blossoming relationship with Jill Clayburgh is interrupted by a dead body outside their train window. He gets pulled into a complex crime scheme involving Rembrandt paintings. Thrown off the train (multiple times) he gets help from thief Richard Pryor, the first of their many successful pairings on film. The plot tries to cover too many things, comedy, romance, violent crime, impossible chases, even a disaster-movie ending, but Wilder's easy-going personality and screen presence holds it all together.
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