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Una donna che intende testimoniare contro un'organizzazione criminale deve essere protetta dagli assassini durante il viaggio in treno da Chicago a Los Angeles.Una donna che intende testimoniare contro un'organizzazione criminale deve essere protetta dagli assassini durante il viaggio in treno da Chicago a Los Angeles.Una donna che intende testimoniare contro un'organizzazione criminale deve essere protetta dagli assassini durante il viaggio in treno da Chicago a Los Angeles.
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- 1 candidatura in totale
Peter Brocco
- Vincent Yost
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Ivan Browning
- Waiter
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George Chandler
- Accomplice Running Newsstand
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James Conaty
- Tenant in Apartment House Hallway
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Don Dillaway
- Reporter
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Franklyn Farnum
- Train Passenger
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Bess Flowers
- Wagon Restaurant Diner
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Don Haggerty
- Det. Wilson
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- QuizIn preference to removing various walls from the sets, director Richard Fleischer decided to make extensive use of a handheld camera that could be brought into rooms; this was one of the first films to do so. To save money, the train sets were rigidly fixed to the floor and the camera was moved to simulate the train rocking.
- BlooperThere are palm trees at the Denver train station.
- Citazioni
Walter Brown: Pardon me, I'd like to get through.
Jennings: Sorry, this train wasn't designed for my tonnage, heh. Nobody loves a fat man except his grocer and his tailor!
- Versioni alternativeAlso available in a computer colorized version.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story: Howard's Way (1987)
Recensione in evidenza
Charles McGraw plays edgy cop Walter Brown. His job is to protect a dead racketeer's wife, Mrs Neil (Marie Windsor) from the mob. She's a key witness in a grand jury probe, and also has a payoff list linking gang members to the LAPD. Most of the film's action takes place on board the train taking Brown and Neil to Los Angeles, where she will testify.In Mrs. Neil, played to perfection by Windsor, the queen of B movies, the tough talking, wise-cracking Brown meets his match. On the way to meet her, he glibly tells his partner, Gus Forbes that "She's the sixty cent special. Cheap. Flashy. Sticky poison under the gravy." When he and Forbes, both from Los Angeles, first meet her, she says, "How nice. How Los Angeles." Then looking Brown up and down, she snarls, "Sunburn wear off on the way?" My favorite wisecrack occurs after Brown has finally had enough of her wise remarks and lashes out, "You make me sick to my stomach." Her retaliation is a gem: "Well, use your own sink." Unlike the banter between Nick and Noira Charles of The Thin Man series, there's nothing the least sophisticated about the way Brown and Neil talk each other. Director Richard Fleischer uses inventive camera work, the sounds of the train rather than a music score, and the train's claustrophobic atomsphere to create and sustain tension. An RKO picture, The Narrow Margin is an unpretentious, taut low-budget thriller, a minor classic far superior to the 1990 Gene Hackman-Anne Archer remake.
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Dettagli
Botteghino
- Budget
- 188.000 USD (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 11 minuti
- Colore
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1
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