Narrow Margin - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[nora]

Writer/director Peter Hyams was searching through old movie classics that might be good to remake but only ones which were not too well-known and significant. In the end, Hyams chose Richard Fleischer's "The Narrow Margin (1952)."

[chris]

Gene Hackman and Harris Yulin worked together in "Night Moves (1975)."

[frederick]

Much of the footage of the film's helicopter chase and early train sequence was reused in the 2000 film Crash Point Zero (aka Extreme Limits), starring Treat Williams.

[caroline]

This remake was made and released about thirty-eight years after "The Narrow Margin (1952)" original picture which it is based on had been first released in 1952.

[marc]

The movie's central character portrayed by Gene Hackman is called Robert Caulfield and is named after director Peter Hyams' former manager at a television station. Elliott Gould's character in "Capricorn One (1977)" (also directed by Hyams) has the same character name of Robert Caulfield.

[darrell]

Anne Archer and Harris Yulin both appeared in "Clear and Present Danger" (1994).

[christina]

Reviews of this film were largely negative, upon release in 1990.

[bernice]

The cabin featured in the first act was specifically built for the movie. Peter Hyams decided to build it on top of a mountain in that particular spot while it was still covered in winter snow. When the snow melted it turned out that the spot was actually a dump and it took a short while to clear it out.

[toni]

According to the Train Movies website Railserve, "the film was shot in British Columbia, where a 'Lac Des Arcs' train station was built along the tracks specifically for the film. The train consisted of a British Columbia Railway (BC Rail) SD40-2 diesel and 12 privately owned passenger cars, all painted in VIA Rail Canada livery to appear as the Toronto-Vancouver Canadian. The private cars included one dormitory, one baggage car, three coaches (#521, 524, 550), one dome car (#555), one dining car (#548), another coach (#540), three sleepers (#558, 564, 544), and a rear dome car (#597). The primary compartments in the film are A6 in #564, and later C6 in #558. Some of the distant exterior shots of the train (specifically two bridge crossings) were filmed using a model train".

[wallace]

The make and model of the train featured in the movie was a BC Rail SD40-2 diesel locomotive. It featured twelve passenger rail-cars in total. It was used for both interior and exterior filming on the picture.

[veronica]

J.T. Walsh and J.A. Preston both appeared in "A Few Good Men" (1992).

[amber]

The idea for the Robert Caulfield (Gene Hackman's) character to wear glasses was a concept conceived by Hackman himself.