Silver Streak is coming out Aug. 5 in Blu-ray for the first time. It's one of my favorite train movies. Not to be missed. Don
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Great flick! Thanks for the heads up.
Great movie, thanks Don
Alex
Not only a great train movie, but one of my favorite movies period. ("Well....I left my Jag in Kansas City." 
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- Mike
SON OF A B.....!!!
Now I gotta buy it again.
Thank's for the heads-up Don. I think it is a great movie also.
Amazon has it for 12 bucks on pre-order. I just ordered it. Don
It is, indeed, a fun ride! 
I don't wanna be "debbie downer" here but the only thing good about that movie is the last 10 or 15 minutes, the rest is a slow draaaaaag.
Catchy "train" theme song though.
Nothing personal Don, just my opinion.
Saw it in the theater first day. The theater had a 4x8 layout with a CP Rail passenger train running!!! I always liked the film and have it on VHS, DVD and now I'll have to get BR!! ...........maybe I need a model of a 'AM Rail' train.
Dave, that would be a great F-unit to paint. Don
Definitely memorable for the epic train crash and another one of Gene Wilder's delightful performances of the 70's (alongside Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Blazing Saddles). Looking forward to picking up a copy
Originally Posted by RickO:
...the rest is a slow draaaaaag.
Now there's a comment you won't often hear about "Silver Streak." He must have been watching a different movie. 
Originally Posted by Allan Miller:
Originally Posted by RickO:
...the rest is a slow draaaaaag.
Now there's a comment you won't often hear about "Silver Streak." He must have been watching a different movie.
Probably because there were no horses running across the top of the train or through the passenger cars...
Rusty
This is something I have to order! One of my favorite train movies, and hands down one of my favorite characters in the movie has to be Scatman Crothers as the Porter.
"Hellllooooo Chicago!"
Silver Streak has special importance for me because the Tyco Silver Streak train set was my first set as an eight year old when the movie came out after playing with my dad's Marx O gauge. I didnt get to watch the movie until a few years later but Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor have been favourites since.(stir crazy is another great one)
Jay in Ottawa
Originally Posted by Rusty Traque:
Originally Posted by Allan Miller:
Originally Posted by RickO:
...the rest is a slow draaaaaag.
Now there's a comment you won't often hear about "Silver Streak." He must have been watching a different movie.
Probably because there were no horses running across the top of the train or through the passenger cars...
Rusty
No, that one isn't any good either and I didn't waste $10.00 going to see it, I could tell from the previews.
I haven't seen Silver Streak since i was a kid (maybe thats the problem) and it was played on ABC Sunday Night at the Movies. What I can remember the better part of the movie was Gene and Jill making googly eyes at each other.
I always wished there was more train footage, loved the last 10 or 15 minutes though.... and the score stays in my head for days.
Not trying to "rain on the parade here" just a counterpoint.
While I wouldn't go so far as calling Silver Streak a great train movie, it was a good and pleasant one. The railroading was reasonably well represented and when I was in Calgary for the NMRA convention in 1979, it was fun finding some of the "Illinois" scenes.
While the pacing may have been a little slow at the beginning, it still beats the constant string of mindless action of many of todays movies.
Rusty
I don't have blue-ray. 
Rick
Hello Chicago, Hello, Gotta drink to that!!
That movie is "pure p_ _ _ _!", just like the Jag!
Loved that movie. AMRoad! Gotta love it. Will definitely add it to my collection.
