Innocuous takeoff on the Lady Vanishes and Night Train railroad thrillers, executed with little sense of the style of the Hitchcock-Reed prototypes, and replacing the sophisticated fun with a more sophomoric type. The poppycock plot has a movie buff's sure feel for standard cloak-and-daggar situations (the funniest gimmick is having the innocent hero — Gene Wilder of the gullible eyes and the distraught hairdo — ejected from the train at regular intervals), but the only participant who appears to understand the proper tone for this sort of thing is Patrick McGoohan, in the role of a suavely sinister art curator from Chicago. With Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, and Ned Beatty; directed by Arthur Hiller. (1976) — Duncan Shepherd
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