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The Narrow Margin (1952)
Director: Richard Fleischer
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Fleischer has yet to have his critical day: with Blake Edwards, he is one of the last surviving classically trained American directors. Here is classic pulp premise (cops escorting hoodlum's widow to Grand Jury trial with a pack of killers bent on eliminating her before she talks); essence of B movie casting (the malevolently magnificent McGraw and the sleazy siren Windsor); and classic setting (transcontinental express train with every passenger, every stop a possibly malign menace). Teeming with incident, it is fashioned into a taut, breathtakingly fast and highly suspenseful 'sleeper' par excellence.Author: CW
Cast & crew
Director: Richard Fleischer
Producer: Stanley Rubin
Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert, Queenie Leonard, Paul Maxey, Don Beddoe full cast
Genre(s): Film Noir
Duration: 71 mins
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