Comedy Crime Romance Thriller Action
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.
Directed by
Arthur Hiller
Written by
Colin Higgins
Clifton James
Sheriff Chauncey
Jill Clayburgh
Hildegard 'Hilly' Burns
Fred Willard
Jerry Jarvis
Ned Beatty
Bob Sweet
Richard Pryor
Grover Muldoon
Henry Beckman
Conventioneer
Patrick McGoohan
Roger Devereau
J.A. Preston
Waiter (uncredited)
Richard Kiel
Reace
Scatman Crothers
Ralston
Ray Walston
Mr. Edgar Whiney
Gene Wilder
George Caldwell
Nick Dimitri
John Daheim
Engineer #2
Bill Henderson
Red Cap
Ed McNamara
Benny
Len Birman
Chief
Lucille Benson
Rita Babtree
Harvey Atkin
Conventioneer
Stefan Gierasch
Professor Schreiner & Johnson
Raymond Guth
Night Watchman
Nick Stewart
Shoeshiner
Bob Herron
Delos V. Smith Jr.
Burt
Valerie Curtin
Plain Jane
Gordon Hurst
Moose
Mathilda Calnan
Blue-Haired Lady
Margarita García
Mexican Mama-San
Lloyd White
Porter
Jack O'Leary
Fat Man #1
Lee McLaughlin
Fat Man #2
Tom Erhart
Cab Driver
Steve Weston
Conventioneer
Wendy Girard
Girl on Train (uncredited)

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