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The Narrow Margin

Name: The Narrow Margin
Director: Richard Fleischer
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Released: 1952
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert, Queenie Leonard

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.

1952 · Directed by Richard Fleischer · 71 min · Thriller · Crime · 18 frames

Tagline

A Fortune If They Seal Her Lips!...A Bullet If They Fail!

Crew

Screenplay: Earl Felton
Cinematography: George E. Diskant
Edited by: Robert Swink
Produced by: Stanley Rubin

Cast

Charles McGraw as Det. Sgt. Walter Brown
Marie Windsor as Mrs. Frankie Neall
Jacqueline White as Ann Sinclair
Gordon Gebert as Tommy Sinclair
Queenie Leonard as Mrs. Troll
David Clarke as Joseph Kemp
Peter Virgo as Densel
Don Beddoe as Det. Sgt. Gus Forbes
Paul Maxey as Sam Jennings
Harry Harvey as Train Conductor

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: RKO Radio Pictures
Budget: $10,000,000
Themes: hitman, widow, telegram, overweight man, police protection, blonde, little boy, film noir, murder, undercover cop

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Soylent Green — 1973
Doctor Dolittle — 1967
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea — 1954
Fantastic Voyage — 1966
Barabbas — 1961
Mr. Majestyk — 1974
10 Rillington Place — 1971
The Boston Strangler — 1968
Compulsion — 1959
Mandingo — 1975
See No Evil — 1971
The Vikings — 1958
Conan the Destroyer — 1984
Red Sonja — 1985

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