Peter Hyams directs Gene Hackman, Anne Archer and James Sikking in this thriller where a district attorney and an uncooperative witness must survive an overnight train journey with contract killers in every carriage.

Classy slop. The bookmarking action is top notch, the train journey cat and mouse inbetween spins its wheels a little. Luckily, Hackman is watchable as fuck. Not quite as good as the original but you’d be utterly minted if you rented this from Variety Video on a Saturday night.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Narrow Margin (1952)

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