Narrow Margin
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58% Rotten Tomatoes Adapted from The Narrow Margin Duration Language English | 6.5/10 IMDb 1.5/4 Roger Ebert Genre Action, Crime, Thriller Initial DVD release November 10, 1998 Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 21, 1990 (1990-09-21) (U.S.) Writer Peter Hyams (screenplay), Earl Felton (earlier screenplay), Martin Goldsmith (earlier story), Jack Leonard (earlier story) Cast (Robert Caulfield), (Carol Hunnicut), (Nelson (as James B. Sikking)), J. T. Walsh (Michael Tarlow), M. Emmet Walsh (Sergeant Dominick Benti), (Kathryn Weller)Similar movies The Narrow Margin , Last Train to Freo Tagline It will take you to the edge of suspense. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Remake recon the narrow margin
Narrow Margin is a 1990 crime thriller film directed by Peter Hyams and released by TriStar Pictures, loosely based on the 1952 film noir The Narrow Margin. It tells the story of a Los Angeles deputy district attorney who attempts to keep a murder witness safe from hit men while traveling through the Canadian wilderness aboard a train. The film stars Gene Hackman and Anne Archer.
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- Remake recon the narrow margin
- Narrow margin trailer 1990 guild
- Plot
- Production
- Reception
- DVD release
- References
Narrow margin trailer 1990 guild
Plot
A Los Angeles district attorney (Gene Hackman) is attempting to take an unwilling murder witness (Anne Archer) back to the United States from Canada to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hit men sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to find the killers are on board 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.
Production
The film was shot in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. The train used for both interior and exterior scenes consisted of a BC Rail SD40-2 diesel locomotive and 12 privately owned passenger railcars, all painted in Via Rail Canada livery to represent the Toronto-Vancouver passenger train. Some of the distant exterior shots were filmed using a model train.
Reception
Narrow Margin received mixed reviews and holds a 58% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
DVD release
The DVD released by Optimum Releasing in 2007 is the only DVD available of Narrow Margin with any kind of extra features; it contains a commentary by Peter Hyams, B-Roll footage, a brief documentary, sound-bites by the cast and crew, and a trailer. All other DVD versions of the movie have been without features.
References
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