Narrow Margin (1990) on Netflix
R19901h 37mActionCrimeThriller
Los Angeles editor Carol Hunnicut watches a gunman shoot her blind date. A sergeant traces her to a Canadian cabin, and Robert Caulfield wants her testimony against crime boss Leo Watts.
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- Rotten Tomatoes63%
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Plot summary
Carol Hunnicut, a divorced editor in Los Angeles, meets the lawyer Michael Tarlow for a blind date at a hotel restaurant. A waiter brings him a message to call a client, and he invites her up to his suite. From a darkened room she watches the crime boss Leo Watts arrive with a gunman, Jack Wootton, who shoots Tarlow. Hunnicut leaves her son with his father and flees to a borrowed cabin in the Canadian Rockies. Police sergeant Dominick Benti traces her and gives her location to Robert Caulfield, a deputy district attorney, who charters a helicopter to the cabin.
Cast
- B.A. 'Smitty' Smithas Keller
- Barbara Russellas Nicholas' Mother
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Narrow Margin (1990)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The director of the original film, Richard Fleischer, wrote a rebuke to the Times after Peter Hyams' team distanced their version from his, noting the new film cost between $15 million and $20 million against his $188,000.
- Canada's national rail operator Via Rail backed out of leasing a carriage to the production because of overbooking, so only an engine and a baggage car came from it; the other cars were leased from a Colorado company, a Texas collector and BC Rail, then repainted.
- Train carriage interiors were rebuilt on a set inside a warehouse on Vancouver's Euclid Avenue and mounted on an inflatable platform so the carriage would sway like a moving train.
- Gene Hackman and Anne Archer performed part of the rooftop scene themselves, held by cables concealed under their clothes; according to Hackman, it was the first stunt Anne Archer had ever done.
- Susan Hogan got her part because director Peter Hyams was a fan of her role on the Canadian series Night Heat; he asked her agency for tapes of her and later cast her over the phone.
- Broughton's score was not issued with the film; select tracks surfaced on a 1999 Intrada Records compilation, and some recorded tracks were rejected by Hyams, whom Broughton described as very demanding.
