Thus, a parity driven league has «
a diluted quality of play» because it doesn't a cast of all - stars spend half their season slaughtering bottom half teams, or in the case of Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga, slaughtering every other team.
Silver Streak is the first
of two Colin Higgins scripts to emulate the lighter side
of Hitchcock (Foul
Play is the other), and even though no one would ever confuse the
quality of this film with that
of Hitch's The Lady Vanishes and North by Northwest, for a modest little comedy that just seeks to entertain, it's a pleasant enough for a
diluted imitation.