Narrow Margin

Narrow Margin1952

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Gene Hackman, James Sikking
Genre: Film-Noir, Thriller
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 99 minutes

Back in 1952, during the waning days of film noir, director Richard Fleischer made The Narrow Margin, a cheaply produced, tightly structured B movie thriller about a cop forced to protect a gangster's widow while on a train. While it's no work of a… more »



Walter Brown:
You're a pretty good judge of crooks, Mrs. Neall; the only place you slip up is with cops. I turned the deal down.

Mrs. Neall:
Then you're a bigger idiot than I thought! When are you going to get it through your square head that this is big business? And we're right in the middle.

Walter Brown:
Meaning you'd like to sell out?

Mrs. Neall:
With pleasure and profit, and so would you. What are the odds if we don't? I sing my song for the grand jury, and spend the rest of my life dodging bullets---if I'm lucky!---while you grow old and gray on the police force. Oh, wake up, Brown. This train's headed straight for the cemetery. But there's another one coming along, a gravy train. Let's get on it.

Walter Brown:
Mrs. Neall, I'd like to give you the same answer I gave that hood -- but it would mean stepping on your face.

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