The Narrow Margin
A cop guards a gangster's moll as she travels by train to testify before a grand jury. Also riding: determined hitmen who want the moll dead.
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- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 11 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: December 9, 2014
- Originally Released: 1952
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor & Jacqueline White | |
Performer: | Gordon Gebert, Queenie Leonard, David Clarke & Don Beddoe | |
Directed by | Richard Fleischer | |
Screenplay by | Earl Felton | |
Art Direction by | Albert S. D'Agostino & Jack Okey | |
Story by | Martin Goldsmith & Jack Leonard | |
Produced by | Stanley Rubin | |
Director of Photography: | George Diskant |
Entertainment Reviews:
Along with Ulmer's Detour, the ultimate noir "aesthetics of hunger" manifesto
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CinePassion
Rating: 4/5 --
A hard-as-nails, noir-ish thriller from the often underrated Richard Fleischer.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 4.5/5 --
One of the best B-movies I've ever seen, and deserves to be better known.
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Goatdog's Movies
Rapid, concise, and beautifully photographed, The Narrow Margin is an exercise in craft with few reverberations beyond the fascination of its technological exactness.
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The New York Review of Books
Rating: 2.5/4 --
...a stripped-down premise that's employed to watchable yet far-from-enthralling effect...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: A- --
The cast may be B-level, but the sharp writing, taut direction, and production values of the Richard Fleischer's noir thriller (which is superior to the 1990 remake) are not.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: A --
This sleeper may very well be the best B-film ever made.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Description by OLDIES.com:
Charles McGraw plays a cop guarding a gangster's moll (Marie Windsor) as she travels west to testify before a grand jury. Also riding: determined hitmen who know the moll is on the train, but don't know what she looks like.
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- Sales Rank: 32,251
- UPC: 888574105518
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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