The Narrow Margin

About The Narrow Margin

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

The Narrow Margin is a 1952 crime thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer. Released in May 1952, it runs 71 minutes.

Its themes are film noir, widow, police detective, and undercover cop.

Charles McGraw appears as Det. Sgt. Walter Brown, Marie Windsor as Mrs. Frankie Neall, Jacqueline White as Ann Sinclair, and Gordon Gebert as Tommy Sinclair. The screenplay is by Earl Felton. In the United States it streams on YouTube TV.

Shadow of a Doubt, The Night of the Hunter, and Brooklyn's Finest make useful companions to The Narrow Margin, all filed under murder. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 181 votes and it carries a NR rating.