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Writer:
Colin Higgins (writer)
Release Date:
3 December 1976 (USA) more
Tagline:
It's the Most Hilarious Suspense Ride of Your Life!
Plot:
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 nominations more
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(6 articles)
Discuss: What Film Friendships Must Be Rekindled?
(From Cinematical. 16 June 2009, 10:32 AM, PDT)
Richard Pryor in Blazing Saddles? It Almost Happened
(From amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns. 27 February 2009, 9:00 PM, PST)
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A very solid effort for the comedic duo of Wilder and Pryor more (72 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gene Wilder | ... | George Caldwell |
 | Jill Clayburgh | ... | Hilly Burns |
 | Richard Pryor | ... | Grover Muldoon |
 | Patrick McGoohan | ... | Roger Devereau |
 | Ned Beatty | ... | Bob Sweet |
| Clifton James | ... | Sheriff Oliver Chauncey |
| Ray Walston | ... | Mr. Edgar Whiney |
| Stefan Gierasch | ... | Prof. Schreiner / Johnson |
| Len Birman | ... | Chief Donaldson |
| Valerie Curtin | ... | Plain Jane |
| Lucille Benson | ... | Rita Babtree |
| Scatman Crothers | ... | Ralston |
 | Richard Kiel | ... | Reace |
 | Fred Willard | ... | Jerry Jarvis |
| Delos V. Smith Jr. | ... | Burt (as Delos V. Smith) |
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114 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | West Germany:12 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:PG | Singapore:PG | Iceland:12 | Canada:A (Nova Scotia)
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The locomotive used as "AM ROAD"'s 4070, was actually CP Rail's (formerly Canadian Pacific) 4070. For the filming, the AM ROAD decal was placed over the CP markings and "Multimark" pac-man logo. At the end on the shoot, the decals actually damaged the engines real paint job. The production company had to pay for the repainting of the engine, which took place in the CP Rail Transcona shops in Winnipeg Manitoba. The locomotive is a FP7A built by GMD in 1952. In 1982, CP sold it to STCUM, where it was re-numbered to 1300 in 1983. As of 2002, she is now sitting in "non-operational" storage in Montreal. more
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Continuity: As the train enters the station after the cars have been uncoupled, it crosses all the way to the right hand side and enters the station on the last approach track, but when it cuts to the next two shots tracks even further to the right of the train are visible. more
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Roger Devereau: Keep your foot ON THE PEDAL! more
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Edited into The N Word (2004) more
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This is THE film to see, if you're a fan of either Gene Wilder or Richard Pryor. Although Pryor's stay in the film is rather short, it is perhaps his greatest comedic work outside of his monumental stand up routines. A combination, the Lady Vanishes, and slap stick, this film succeeds because it blends these elements together in a way that makes the flow easy and entertaining. These are situations and reactions to them, that we the audience can envision ourselves partaking in. They don't get crazy mad cap like in an Abbot and Costello film, and yet they don't take themselves too seriously either. A great end to the film, with a truly amazing crash through Chicago Union Station by a runaway Locomotive.