Narrow Margin( 1990)

TV-MAActionThrillerCrimeMystery

63%

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It will take you to the edge of suspense.

Overview

An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.

Top Billed Cast

Gene Hackman
Robert Caulfield
Anne Archer
Carol Hunnicut
James B. Sikking
Nelson
Harris Yulin
Leo Watts
J.T. Walsh
Michael Tarlow
M. Emmet Walsh
Sergeant Dominick Benti
Susan Hogan
Kathryn Weller
Nigel Bennett
Jack Wootton
J.A. Preston
Martin Larner
B.A. 'Smitty' Smith
Keller
Codie Lucas Wilbee
Nicholas
Barbara Russell
Nicholas' Mother
Antony Holland
Elderly Man
Doreen Ramos
Elderly Woman
Kevin McNulty
James Dahlbeck
Andrew Rhodes
Nigro
Lon Katzman
Loughlin
Dana Still
Bellman With Message
Lesley Ewen
Larner's Secretary
Barney O'Sullivan
Ticket Agent
Natino Bellantoni
Bartender
Ted Stidder
Conductor #1
Lindsay Bourne
Club Car Waiter
Robert Rozen
Dining Car Waiter
Tom McBeath
Conductor #2
Ron Cummins
Hotel Valet

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A review by John Chard

6.5

Written by John Chard on Mon Dec 01 2014

Narrow Margins and Wide Loads. Director and writer Peter Hyams took the bold decision to reimage one of the best film noir crime pictures of the 1950s, and all things considered it’s not half bad. Without getting close to the greatness of Richard Fleischer’s 1952 claustrophobic suspenser that is. Having Gene Hackman and Anne Archer heading up your two principal characters is a good foundation. As the district attorney employee and witness to a mob killing respectively, both actors come up trumps for their director as they are thrust into a game of cat and mouse aboard a speeding train. As...