The Narrow Margin (The Target) (1952)

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"Narrow Margin, The (Richard Fleischer, 1952) "

Slant’s 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time (100 movies items)

"As lean and muscular as its portly train passenger is obese (“Nobody loves a fat man except his grocer and tailor”), Richard Fleischer’s The Narrow Margin delivers crisp crime drama interested in challenging assumptions about identity. Charles McGraw’s Det. Sgt. Walter Brown escorts a mobster’s wife, Frankie Neall (Marie Windsor), to L.A. via locomotive so she can testify. Evading on-board killers and coping with sunshiny Ann Sinclair (Jacqueline White) and her pesky kid, however, is n"

Movies the giraffe watched in 2018: August (28 movies items)

"First viewing - Aug. 27th After dropping my mom off at the airport, I had an errand to run and stopped for lunch while I was out. On my way home I decided to see what I could find at the local library, and wound up walking out with 5 films to spend time with over the next week. This one caught my eye, and when I saw the words film noir in the description on the back I held onto it. And it's pretty good. I thought the three leads had wonderful chemistry, and enjoyed the way the film plays out as"