On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldier bringing home a dead war buddy. He gets more than he bargained for from the train and the coffin.
Michael O'Keefe
as Michael Rangeloff
Beverly D'Angelo
as Standish Logan
Louis Gossett Jr.
as Century
Brian Dennehy
as Frizzoli
Pamela Stephenson
as Georgina Latimer
Ed Lauter
as Josef Sirola
David Wayne
as Stapleton
Jim Carrey
as Lane Biddlecoff
Frank C. Turner
as Elvis, Railway Waiter (uncredited)
Campbell Lane
as Stanton Gilmore