Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Daylight saving time began (in 23 out of 48 states) making train schedules more incomprehensible than usual, and keeping children awake-wriggling, crying for glasses of water or sneaking peeks at comic books-for an extra hour nightly...
...Narrow Margin (RKO Radio) is the kind of lowbudget, high-quality movie that the trade calls a "sleeper." This particular sleeper accommodates some colorful passengers on a Chicago-Los Angeles train. A jut-jawed detective (Charles Mc-Graw) is escorting a gangster's sloe-eyed widow (Marie Windsor) to be the key witness in a grand jury crime probe. The detective's problem is to evade a couple of cold-blooded syndicate hoods who have rubbed out the detective's partner and are now bent on murdering the widow...
...often happens in whodunits, the plot gets derailed at its destination. But on the way the picture rattles along at an exciting express clip. The movie plays fresh variations on a familiar theme in a lean scenario, pungent performances and inventive direction: a gangster car pacing the train is menacingly mirrored in compartment windows as backdrop to the slam-bang action; the cramped train settings are put to striking dramatic effect through expert camera work and cutting. Refreshingly, there are convincing sound effects and no hammering musical score...
...writer by 20th Century-Fox, and Director Richard Fleischer, 35, son of Animated Cartoon Pioneer Max (Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor) Fleischer, was handed a directorial contract by Producer Stanley Kramer. For its trigger-paced suspense, their little picture is worthy of being bracketed in the select group of train thrillers headed by Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes and Carol Reed's Night Train...
Also on the Beacon Hill screen are two J. Arthur Rank reissues. The Adventuress and Night Train to Trieste are both spy pictures. The former is dull plot-wise, while the acting of Deborah Kerr is even worse. Night Train to Trieste, however, is an exciting thriller, with suave international spies, beautiful women, and a comic British busybody...