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The Narrow Margin <\/strong><\/em>(1952)<\/p>\n Director:\u00a0 Richard Fleischer<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: Earl Felton, <\/strong>story by Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard Stars: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor<\/strong>, Jacqueline White, Queenie Leonard, David Clarke, Don Beddoe, Paul Maxey, Peter Brocco, George Chandler \u00a0<\/strong>and Harry Harvey<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline: ‘THAT BULLET’S MEANT FOR ME!” – Suspense every speeding second aboard a stream-lined limited…as syndicate killers seek to find and silence mystery woman headed for the Grand Jury!<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot… <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Detective Sergeant Walter Brown (McGraw) and his partner, Sergeant Gus Forbes (Beddoe) are tasked to safely bring Mrs. Frankie Neall (Windsor) from Chicago to LA.\u00a0 Mrs. Neall is a big time mobster’s wife.\u00a0 She’s turning state’s evidence that will bring down the mob. So she’s been marked for death.<\/p>\n The plan is to get Mrs. Neall on a train that is going straight from Chicago to LA.\u00a0 Problem is, more than one mob hitman will be on the train as well.<\/p>\n All aboard!<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0The Narrow Margin<\/em> was nominated for one Academy Award<\/em> for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story – <\/em>Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard<\/strong><\/p>\n Much of The Narrow Margin<\/em> was made using a handheld camera.\u00a0 It was one of the first movies to be filmed this way.<\/p>\n Howard Hughes, who owned RKO (the studio that made the movie), liked The Narrow Margin<\/em> so much, he wanted to not<\/strong> release it and immediately remake it with Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell.\u00a0 Hughes thought with the new cast and a few script changes the remake could be a major hit.\u00a0 The Narrow Margin<\/em>‘s release was held up for two years until Howard Hughes decided to get out of the movie business and sold his interest in RKO.<\/p>\n The Narrow Margin<\/em> has a great plot twist that most folks probably won’t see coming.<\/p>\n The Narrow Margin <\/strong><\/em>(1952) rates 4 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n The Narrow Margin (1952) Director:\u00a0 Richard Fleischer Screenplay: Earl Felton, story by Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard Stars: Charles McGraw, Marie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38798,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795\/revisions\/38798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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