The Narrow Margin
1952, Crime/Drama, 1h 11m
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Tense story of a tough cop attempting to transport the widow of a gangster to the trial in which she'll testify. They undertake a rail journey from Chicago to Los Angeles with their lives constantly under threat from hit men on the train, who will stop at nothing to prevent her from testifying.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Richard Fleischer
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Producer: Stanley Rubin
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures
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A second screening has made me appreciate this film much more than I did after the initial screening. (I've almost doubled the star rating). I think my initial reaction was based on how the filmmakers chose to deal with the death of ... SPOILER ALERT!!! .... a major character, played fabulously by Marie Windsor. In fact, it's really a disgrace how she, playing an undercover police officer, is killed without the characters acknowledging her death and bravery. (Or, for that matter, her foolish acts that led to her murder.) Nonetheless, this is a film noir gem.
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Good film noir set entirely on and around a train. Charles McGraw plays a cop hired to transport the widow of a murdered gangster cross-country to testify before a grand jury. Also on the train are men who will do what ever is necessary to make sure she DOESN'T testify. McGraw is Mr. Tough-as-Nails as always, and noir queen Marie Windsor is at her bitchiest. The setting on the train gives the whole film a claustrophobic quality that adds to the suspense. There's also a cool little twist that I didn't see coming. A definite star in the film noir universe.
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with roughly a 70 minute runtime i wasn't expecting much but as someone has already said... it kept me on the edge. it wasn't easy to read either. you didn't know what was going to happen next and the ending caught me off guard **SPOILER ALERT - i can't believe they killed off marie windsor towards the end. that's the biggest travesty in film history ever. she's so gorgeous. how can they kill her off??? i'm used to watching modern hollywood movies where the good looking ones die last or not at all. - SPOILER ALERT**
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A brilliant film noir gem. The dialogue between McGraw and Windsor is brilliant. A fast, tough talking, and fun film with a great twist at the end. Well worth seeing. Walter Brown: Meaning you'd like to sell out? Mrs. Neall: With pleasure and profit, and so would you. What are the odds if we don't? I sing my song for the grand jury, and spend the rest of my life dodging bullets - -if I'm lucky! - -while you grow old and gray on the police force. Oh, wake up, Brown. This train's headed straight for the cemetery. But there's another one coming along, a gravy train. Let's get on it. Walter Brown: Mrs. Neall, I'd like to give you the same answer I gave that hood - but it would mean stepping on your face.
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