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A Fortune If They Seal Her Lips!...A Bullet If They Fail!

The Narrow Margin

7.31952 · 1h 11m · EN

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A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.

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Charles McGraw

Det. Sgt. Walter Brown

Marie Windsor

Mrs. Frankie Neall

Jacqueline White

Ann Sinclair

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Gordon Gebert

Tommy Sinclair

Queenie Leonard

Mrs. Troll

David Clarke

Joseph Kemp

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Peter Virgo

Densel

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Director: Richard Fleischer
Status: Released
Audience votes: 179

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