Margin for Error
1943 · 74 MIN · IMDB 5.7 · 337 VOTES · DIR. Otto Preminger
Overview
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,081 lines
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00:01:02 Seven. That did it. This time I'm shooting five.
00:03:58 Solomon, you, me, the Nazi.
00:07:13 - Then, you'd be out of a job, Otto. - What do you mean?
00:09:49 in advancing the ideology of national socialism to the American students.
00:12:40 I can't stand it any longer. I can't go on living with him.
00:15:49 Four of our men are arriving on the Belmont this afternoon...
00:18:43 between living in the land of the free and in the land of gangsters.
00:21:41 - Why don't you see a lawyer? - I don't dare.
00:25:30 Alright, Saturday night. Seven o'clock.
00:28:33 I thought you didn't like the young officer.
00:32:33 - Only a fool don't change his mind. - And you ain't no fool, brother.
00:36:45 It won't save Max and it certainly wouldn't be so nice for your papa.
00:39:50 I was consulate in British South Africa.
00:42:53 If you look cross eyed at a picture of Hitler, off goes your head.
00:45:49 US$8 million of war materials for England blow into bits.
00:48:45 Take your time...
00:51:58 They use axes on little ladies necks in Berlin.
00:55:19 - Nothing, thank you. - And you, Max?
00:59:50 than England, America and France combined during the past 100 years.
01:03:01 If he wasrt in it?
01:05:21 There was a bottle of poison in that drawer last night.
01:08:38 Max.
01:11:47 - We found the bottle in his pocket. - I didn't do it, Sophie.
03:03:01 He was killed in action.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,081
Dialogue density14.6 lines / min
First line00:01:02
Final line03:03:01
Production Record
DirectorOtto Preminger
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes337