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
Richard Kiel
Reace
Fred Willard
Jerry Jarvis
Ned Beatty
Bob Sweet
Richard Pryor
Grover Muldoon
J.A. Preston
Waiter (uncredited)
Patrick McGoohan
Roger Devereau
Jill Clayburgh
Hildegard 'Hilly' Burns
Gene Wilder
George Caldwell
Ray Walston
Mr. Edgar Whiney
Scatman Crothers
Ralston
Henry Beckman
Conventioneer
Bill Henderson
Red Cap
Clifton James
Sheriff Chauncey
Delos V. Smith Jr.
Burt
Stefan Gierasch
Professor Schreiner & Johnson
Valerie Curtin
Plain Jane
Bob Herron
Lucille Benson
Rita Babtree
Harvey Atkin
Conventioneer
Raymond Guth
Night Watchman
John Daheim
Engineer #2
Mathilda Calnan
Blue-Haired Lady
Len Birman
Chief
Nick Stewart
Shoeshiner
Gordon Hurst
Moose
Ed McNamara
Benny
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)
Nick Dimitri

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