Narrow Margin

A Los Angeles District Attorney (Gene Hackman) is attempting to take an unwilling murder witness (Anne Archer) back to the United States from Canada to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hit men sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to find the killers are on board with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.




A woman secretly witnesses the murder of her blind date for the evening by a top Mafia boss. She immediately goes into hiding without informing the authorities. When they finally catch up with her, she is unwilling to testify to what she has seen, but the Mafia are on her trail. Accompanied by a deputy district attorney, the woman boards a train travelling through a remote part of Canada. The Mafia know him but they have never seen her. Written by Rob Hartill




In Los Angeles, the editor of a publishing house Carol Hunnicut goes to a blind date with the lawyer Michael Tarlow, who has embezzled the powerful mobster Leo Watts. Carol accidentally witnesses the murder of Michel by Leo's hitman. The scared Carol sneaks out of Michael's room and hides in an isolated cabin in Canada. Meanwhile the Deputy District Attorney Robert Caulfield and Sgt. Dominick Benti discover that Carol is a witness of the murder and they report the information to Caulfield's chief Martin Larner and they head by helicopter to Canada to convince Carol to testify against Leo. However they are followed and the pilot and Benti are murdered by the Mafia. Caulfield and Carol flees and they take a train to Vancouver. Caulfield hides Carol in his cabin and he discloses that there are three hitman in the train trying to find Carol and kill her. But they do not know her and Caulfield does not know who might be the third killer from the Mafia and who has betrayed him in his office. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil




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