Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
- two man army
- kansas
- usa
- train
- theft
- false accusations
- semiautomatic pistol
- sleeping car
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gene Wilder
George Caldwell
Jill Clayburgh
Hildegard 'Hilly' Burns
Richard Pryor
Grover Muldoon
Patrick McGoohan
Roger Devereau
- Ned Beatty — Bob Sweet
- Clifton James — Sheriff Chauncey
- Ray Walston — Mr. Edgar Whiney
- Stefan Gierasch — Professor Schreiner & Johnson
- Len Birman — Chief
- Valerie Curtin — Plain Jane
- Lucille Benson — Rita Babtree
- Scatman Crothers — Ralston
- Richard Kiel — Reace
- Fred Willard — Jerry Jarvis
- Delos V. Smith Jr. — Burt
- Directed
- Arthur Hiller
- Written
- Colin Higgins
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 374 ratings
- Studio
- Frank Yablans Presentations, Miller-Milkis Productions, 20th Century Fox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
