Gene Hackman stars as an LA district attorney attempting to take an unwilling murder witness (Anne Archer) back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen hired to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to find the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurtles 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. Peter Hyams wrote, shot and directed this action-packed thriller with top-notch widescreen photography, adapted from the 1952 classic film noir directed by Richard Fleischer. (Note adapted from Kino Lorber.) DIR/SCR Peter Hyams, from the 1952 film THE NARROW MARGIN, screenplay by Earl Felton, story by Martin Goldsmith and Jack Leonard; PROD Jonathan A. Zimbert. U.S., 1990, color, 97 min. RATED R
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