Narrow Margin is a 1990 film directed by Peter Hyams and released by TriStar Pictures, loosely based on the 1952 film noir, The Narrow Margin. The film stars Gene Hackman and Anne Archer. A Los Angeles District Attorney is attempting to take an unwilling murder witness 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. As with Elliott Gould's character in Capricorn One, Gene Hackman's "Robert Caulfield" is named after Peter Hyams' old boss from his days as working as a TV reporter. Hyams was intentionally looking through old movies that might be classics, only not too famous, to rewrite and remake as a modern film. He finally settled on Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin. The film was shot in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada.
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| Release date: | September 21, 1990 |
| Directed by: | Peter Hyams |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 97 Minutes |
| Producer: | Andrew George Vajna |
| Music by: | Bruce Broughton |
| Cinematography: | Peter Hyams |
| Screenplay by: | Peter Hyams |
| Adapted from: | The Narrow Margin |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |