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The Narrow Margin (1952) 7.7
A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles. Director:Richard Fleischer |
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| Marie Windsor | ... | ||
| Jacqueline White | ... | ||
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Gordon Gebert | ... | |
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Queenie Leonard | ... |
Mrs. Troll
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Peter Virgo | ... |
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When a mobsters wife decides to testify against his evil deeds she goes undercover to avoid being killed. Now that he's coming to trial she has to be escourted across country via train in order to testify. Cop Walter Brown and his partner are assigned the task, but the mob are on their trail. Written by Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
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A Fortune If They Seal Her Lips!...A Bullet If They Fail! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
4 May 1952 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Target See more »Filming Locations:
Santa Fe Railroad Depot - 1170 W. 3rd Street, San Bernardino, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$188,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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Walter Brown: I don't say I've never been tempted. Of course I've been tempted; I'm human like anybody else. But to spend the rest of my time worrying when I'll be caught up with by some hoodlum holding a first mortgage on my life, payable on demand...! Naah. No kind of money worth that.
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Other than a few brief moments in which a phonograph is playing, there is no music in the soundtrack. See more »Goofs
When the character of nine year old Tommy Sinclair (Gordon Gebert) first appears, his traveling nurse clearly calls him "Tony". For the rest of the film he's called "Tommy", the character's official name. See more »Quotes
[On bribes]Walter Brown: I don't say I've never been tempted. Of course I've been tempted; I'm human like anybody else. But to spend the rest of my time worrying when I'll be caught up with by some hoodlum holding a first mortgage on my life, payable on demand...! Naah. No kind of money worth that.
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The Narrow Margin is excellent. It's too bad more of our new directors have forgotten how to make a great film with a minimal budget, using instead inventive camera angles, good characters and dialog, and some surprises along the way. I really loved Marie Windsor as the mobster's wife who's going to LA to sing to the Grand Jury. She's one of the toughest broads I've ever seen! Charles McGraw does his standard tough cop role and turns in a performance that sets the standard by which all others are judged.
This is the original, and beats the heck out of the re-make.....