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The Narrow Margin: Directed by Richard Fleischer, William Cameron Menzies. With Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert. A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against potential assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Richard Fleischer, William Cameron Menzies
- 1952-06-27
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 ...
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- Charles Mcgraw
- Richard Fleischer
- RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
The Narrow Margin is a 1952 American film noir starring Charles McGraw and Marie Windsor. Directed by Richard Fleischer, the RKO picture was written by Earl Felton, based on an unpublished story written by Martin Goldsmith and Jack Leonard. The screenplay by Earl Felton was nominated for an Academy Award.
One of the tautest and most toothsome, in its modest, low-budget way, is Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin. It opens in Chicago, where a pair of Los Angeles police detectives are to escort the widow (Marie Windsor) of a recently slain gang leader back to the coast to testify before a grand jury.
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Francois Truffaut Cahiers du Cinéma. The Narrow Margin... is charged with very moral nitroglycerine but confers a grace that any sweaty driver of a...
A deadly cat and mouse game taking place largely aboard a train, Richard Fleischer’s The Naked Margin is often held up as the apotheosis of low-budget noir film making, prized for its lightening-speed pacing, innovative camera work, and economically effective production design (mostly train compartments, mostly at night).
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Feb 19, 2011 · Richard Fleischer’s taut thriller “The Narrow Margin” is a quintessential film noir, shot by the great cinematographer George Diskant. This RKO Radio picture, made hy Howard Huges (who admired it), stars secon or third-tier cast, Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White.
