NARROW MARGIN, THE

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• Release Year: 1952
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
• Plot: Pack your bags for one of movie history's greatest trips, a nifty film noir thriller that Time deemed 'worthy of being bracketed in the select group of train thrillers headed by Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.'; ; The tracks run direct from Chicago to L.A. The Oscar'-nominated* story, directed by Richard Fleischer (The Boston Strangler) and scripted by his frequent collaborator Earl Felton, zigzags with surprise turns. Film noir favorite Charles McGraw plays a cop guarding a gangster's moll (fellow genre icon Marie Windsor) as she travels west to testify before a grand jury. Also riding the Pullmans: determined hitmen who know the moll is on the train...but don't know what she looks like. All aboard!
• Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Queenie Leonard, David Clarke, Peter Virgo, Don Beddoe, Paul Maxey, Harry Harvey, Peter Brocco, Ivan Browning, George Chandler, James Conaty, Don Dillaway, Franklyn Farnum, Don Haggerty, Clarence Hargrave, Bobby Johnson, Milton Kibbee, Mike Lally, Johnny Lee, William A. Lee, Walter Merrill, Howard M. Mitchell, Edgar Murray, Franklin Parker, George Sawaya, Jeffrey Sayre, Jasper Weldon, Napoleon Whiting, Gordon Gebert, Richard Fleischer, Earl Felton, Martin Goldsmith
• Director: Richard Fleischer
• Runtime: 1:11
• Company: RKO Radio Pictures, Warner Bros.
• Media Format: Movie