The Narrow Margin

Noir Alley host Eddie Muller’s introduction and comments following The Narrow Margin, 1952.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Narrow Margin, 1952.

Detective Brown (Charles McGraw) controls fury toward Mrs. Neall (Marie Windsor) the whiny witness he's guarding, then gets steely toward Kemp (David Clarke) who invades their sleeper, in Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin, 1952.

Detectives Brown (Charles McGraw) and Forbes (Don Beddoe) meet their feisty witness (Marie Windsor) before the train ride, in an early scene from Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin, 1952.

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's moll on a tense train ride in one of the best film noirs The Narrow Margin (1952).

Detective Brown (Charles McGraw) gets a detailed pitch and some sample cash from gangster Yost (Peter Brocco) while the witness (Marie Windsor) sweats, in Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin, 1952.

Hurtling opening credits and crisp dialogue from director Richard Fleischer's celebrated crime thriller The Narrow Margin, 1952, starring Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor and Jacqueline White.

Cold then warm meeting with Ann (Jacqueline White) before Brown (Charles McGraw) sees reason to panic as Kemp (David Clarke) pursues his witness aboard the train in Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin, 1952.