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.

Gene Wilder
as George Caldwell

Jill Clayburgh
as Hildegard 'Hilly' Burns

Richard Pryor
as Grover Muldoon

Patrick McGoohan
as Roger Devereau

Ned Beatty
as Bob Sweet

Clifton James
as Sheriff Chauncey

Ray Walston
as Mr. Edgar Whiney

Stefan Gierasch
as Professor Schreiner & Johnson

Len Birman
as Chief

Valerie Curtin
as Plain Jane
Wuchak
**_Drama, romance, crime, mystery, comedy, adventure, suspense and action on a train_** A book editor traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago by rail (Gene Wilder) supposedly witnesses a crime while partying with a secretary (Jill Clayburgh). He suddenly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous consp...