Narrow Margin

Local film critic and podcaster Matthew Turner returns for a third mini season of film noir classics, which will run exclusively at Chiswick Cinema throughout November 2026. "Directed by Richard Fleischer, this terrific noir thriller is a model of economy, taking place almost entirely aboard a train. Charles McGraw stars as a police detective who's assigned to protect an important witness (Marie Windsor) as she rides a train from Chicago to Los Angeles, before she testifies against the mob." Synopsis: Pack your bags for one of movie history's greatest trips, a nifty film noir thriller that Time deemed "worthy of being bracketed in the select group of train thrillers headed by Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes." These train tracks run direct from Chicago to L.A. in this Oscar-nominated story, directed by Richard Fleischer (The Boston Strangler) and scripted by his frequent collaborator Earl Felton, The Narrow Margin zigzags with surprise turns. Film noir favorite Charles McGraw plays a cop guarding a gangster's moll (fellow genre icon Marie Windsor) as she travels west to testify before a grand jury. Also riding the Pullmans: determined hitmen who know the moll is on the train, but don't know what she looks like. All aboard!ThrillerPT1H12MPG2026-11-11
Charlie MacGraw
Marie Windsor
Jacqueline White
Queenie Leonard
Gordon Gebert
David Clarke
Richard Fleischer
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Showtimes

November 11, 7:45 pm

Chiswick Cinema