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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780784011690
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0784011699
Item Dimensions: 500
Label: Lions Gate
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
MPN: D60484D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 10, 1998
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: September 21, 1990
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Product Description:
NARROW MARGIN (DVD MOVIE)
Amazon.com:
Back in 1952, during the waning days of film noir, director Richard Fleischer made The Narrow Margin, a cheaply produced, tightly structured B movie thriller about a cop forced to protect a gangster's widow while on a train. While it's no work of art, Fleischer's noir features a shocking climax of mistaken identity, an ominous, claustrophobic atmosphere, and tough, nearly unlikable protagonists screwed by fate, who spout sharp-witted dialogue and feel little more than contempt for each other. When Hollywood remakes itself, all the understatement and charm is usually lost when the filmmakers try to "modernize" the subject matter. This is one of many problems with writer-director Peter Hyams's remake (given the slightly shorter title Narrow Margin). He's dumped the surprising plot twist (it's now an action set piece atop a moving train) and softened the characters (now played with sleepwalking intensity by Gene Hackman and Anne Archer) with preposterous motivations. All that seems to be intact is the train premise, but Hyams is more interested in its action potential than any kind of menacing atmosphere. He's dropped the ambiguous relationships and smart dialogue in favor of pumping up the action sequences and daredevil stunts to ridiculous levels. Instead of adding excitement, all Hyams's expensive tricks do is drain Narrow Margin of any tension it might've retained from the original. --Dave McCoy
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I saw this in the theater whe it came out. The ads said "It takes you to the edge of suspense." And it did, just to the edge, not to actual suspense, just the edge. Stick to Fleicher's noir classic.
Rating:  -
It's odd to like an original 1952 film and then like the re-make equally so, if not more, but that's the case with this film. I have viewed both versions of this film at least three times apiece and thoroughly enjoy both.
As is sometimes the case with remakes, some of the twists and turns of this thriller were also changed from the first film. They didn't spoil it, though. I have no objection to the changes made here because the bottom line is entertainment, and that's where this movie ... Read More
Rating: -
Review of "Narrow Margin".
Who could'nt love the trains and the Canadian scenery?
But further I am a Hackman fan so for me it is easily worth
buying to watch and loan to family etc. The R must be for
violence but it not excessive compared to any ordinary day
of commercial TV.
Bad guys (hired killers) chase the seemingly inept Gene
and Anne Archer up and down the cross-Canada touring
type train, and at stations along the way. At some point
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Rating: -
1990's Narrow Margin made a poor showing at the box-office, which is a pity because this is a thriller that really thrills. All too quickly dismissed by many critics for committing the cardinal sin of being a remake (in this case of Richard Fleischer's classic 1952 B-movie), it's a superbly paced example of pure commercial film-making at its most satisfying.
Intelligently scripted by director Peter Hyams (Capricorn One, Outland) with an admirable use of Scope that emphasises the claustrophobic ... Read More
Rating: -
This is one of the best movies Gene Hackman has made. An excellent thriller. He plays the part of a deputy D.A. trying to bring a witness back to court in the U.S. but is being tracked by killers. Some beautiful scenery in Canada as he spirits his witness from a cabin and takes her to the train that will wind through the countryside. The action is non-stop with a helicopter chasing them shooting machine guns to the men hunting them on the train. A game of cat and mouse aboard the train is tense. It has you ... Read More
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