Tuesday, 3 November 2015

The Narrow Margin (1952 Richard Fleischer)

No one seemed familiar to us in taut train thriller (not really a noir), cunningly written by Martin Goldsmith and Jack Leonard and adapted by Earl Fenton. Charles McGraw and Don Beddow are the detectives entrusted with looking after gangster's wife Marie Windsor - David Clarke, Peter Virgo and Peter Brocco (who made an impression) are out to get them, and Jacqueline White and her son Gordon Gebert (Holiday Affair) are the innocent bystanders.

No music. Lit well by George Diskant. Features some eye-catching stuff, like a tough fight in a train compartment long before From Russia with Love and a thrilling finale.

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