I've known about this classic 1952 crime drama since I was a kid but probably saw it only spottily--changing channels on late-night TV. Never in one full viewing.
I know that I always liked it. Yet somehow I missed the most fabulous scene in it. One of the greatest bare-knuckled fight scenes in cinema history. Where was I? What was I doing? Why were my eyes facing in some other direction? What possible distraction made me turn my head away from this beast!
Female lead in this flick: Marie Windsor --you know her from Kubrick's "The Killing". Windsor made a career portraying tramps.
Male lead: husky, beefy, burly Charles McGraw. You know him from 'The Killers'. McGraw is so physically large and square, he almost never gets a thrashing; at least not until years later in Kubrick's 'Spartacus' at the hands of Kirk Douglas.
Anyway --something I thought I would never state --but yeah this stomp-down is arguably a better fight scene than James Bond vs Red Grant in 'From Russia With Love'.
Mind you, there's nothing I like better than seeing an evil Roosskie like Grant, bloodily slain and lying in a heap on the floor. But 'Narrow Margin' is better. Shorter in overall length, but more brutal. More realism.
I know that I always liked it. Yet somehow I missed the most fabulous scene in it. One of the greatest bare-knuckled fight scenes in cinema history. Where was I? What was I doing? Why were my eyes facing in some other direction? What possible distraction made me turn my head away from this beast!
Female lead in this flick: Marie Windsor --you know her from Kubrick's "The Killing". Windsor made a career portraying tramps.
Male lead: husky, beefy, burly Charles McGraw. You know him from 'The Killers'. McGraw is so physically large and square, he almost never gets a thrashing; at least not until years later in Kubrick's 'Spartacus' at the hands of Kirk Douglas.
Anyway --something I thought I would never state --but yeah this stomp-down is arguably a better fight scene than James Bond vs Red Grant in 'From Russia With Love'.
Mind you, there's nothing I like better than seeing an evil Roosskie like Grant, bloodily slain and lying in a heap on the floor. But 'Narrow Margin' is better. Shorter in overall length, but more brutal. More realism.
See it here in our group's video archive:
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/1985...
...watch ...and savor !!!