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First official UK DVD release of this 1952 crime from RKO Pictures. Oscar Nominated in 1953. Get on board for one of the very best hard-boiled thrillers ever to hurtle out of Hollywood. Charles McGraw (His Kind Of Woman) stars as Detective Walter Brown, a cop with a simple mission get mobster's wife Frankie Neale (Marie Windsor, Force of Evil) on the train and take her to the grand jury in Los Angeles, where she's going to testify against her late husband's colleagues. But the mob don't want her to spill the beans and they'll stop at nothing to stop her taking the stand; Brown realises they've planted assassins on the train with them and it's up to him to keep her safe. It's going to be one hell of a journey... A FORTUNE IF THEY SEAL HER LIPS! A BULLET IF THEY FAIL! Extras include: Theatrical trailer and Photo Gallery
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Taut, breathlessly fast and highly suspenseful --Time Out
*** --Halliwells Film Guide
*** --Halliwells Film Guide
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is my favourite film noir of the 50s along with 'Human Desire', 'Kiss Me Deadly' and the British Diana Dors classic 'Tread Softly Stranger'. It was remade with Gene Hackman & Anne Archer in 1990-but this is the classic original about a detective(Charles McGraw)who is assigned to escort a mob boss' widow by sleeper train from Chicago to LA to appear as a witness in a court case against the mob. Marie Windsor is great as the sluttish moll and the detective cannot abide her but has to protect her against the gangsters riding with them on the train who are trying to kill her before she testifies. This is a tight thriller with lots of twists along the journey and not a second is wasted here-who are the good guys and who are the bad guys? You may be suprised! All aboard for 71 minutes of thrilling action in the confined space of a train journey that you won't want to end!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
An excellent film with a good script, well acted by actors who were not stars at the time or since.
It's one to keep and watch again.
It's one to keep and watch again.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Hard bitten cop Charles McGraw is determined to deliver state's witness Marie Windsor to give evidence in a major case in L A.After being ambushed on collecting her and his partner killed,McGraw drags Windsor onto a train bound for L A and a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues as he endeavours to protect Windsor while trying to draw the killers out into the open.
Quite brilliant and claustrophobic thriller is dynamite at 70 minutes with McGraw (usually cast as a very effective villain)doing very well in the lead and Windsor matching him as the cynical, ambivalent witness out to dodge her responsibilities any which way she can.
Vivid realised by Richard Fleischer(who had teamed up with McGraw two years before with the lesser Armored Car Robbery)and beautifully shot - the sequence in the staircase is wonderfully tense,The Narrow Margin is far superior to it's tidy but relatively constipated 1990 remake with Gene Hackman and is an essential entry in the late noir cycle 1950-55.
I reviewed the film years ago on R1 but I still bought this R2 on release as the dvd cover is not the film's poster but a still of Marie Windsor one of the great noir femme fatales.Picture quality is comparable to Warners R1 release.
Quite brilliant and claustrophobic thriller is dynamite at 70 minutes with McGraw (usually cast as a very effective villain)doing very well in the lead and Windsor matching him as the cynical, ambivalent witness out to dodge her responsibilities any which way she can.
Vivid realised by Richard Fleischer(who had teamed up with McGraw two years before with the lesser Armored Car Robbery)and beautifully shot - the sequence in the staircase is wonderfully tense,The Narrow Margin is far superior to it's tidy but relatively constipated 1990 remake with Gene Hackman and is an essential entry in the late noir cycle 1950-55.
I reviewed the film years ago on R1 but I still bought this R2 on release as the dvd cover is not the film's poster but a still of Marie Windsor one of the great noir femme fatales.Picture quality is comparable to Warners R1 release.
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