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Margin for Error is a 1943 American drama film directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Lillie Hayward and Samuel Fuller is based on the 1939 play of the same title by Clare Boothe Luce .
With Joan Bennett, Milton Berle, Otto Preminger, Carl Esmond. Karl, Nazi consul in the US and a compulsive gambler, embezzles state funds and enrages his wife Sophia, his secretary Max as well as US police officer Moe who is detailed to duty in the consulate and to protect the German diplomats.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Otto Preminger
- 1943-02-10
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. Cast. Crew. Details.
- Otto Preminger
- 20th Century Fox
It is a toss-up as to who is most displeased when Patrolman Moe Finkelstein (Milton Berle) is given the duty of guarding the German consulate ran by Karl Baumer (Otto Preminger), neither Moe nor Baumer are too happy with this turn of events. Moe, however, quickly becomes fiends with the other...
- Otto Preminger, Percy Ikerd
- Joan Bennett
Karl, Nazi consul in the US and a compulsive gambler, embezzles state funds and enrages his wife Sophia, his secretary Max as well as US police officer Moe who is detailed to duty in the consulate and to protect the German diplomats.
Aug 1, 2014 · Directed by Otto Preminger. Expectations: Moderate. Margin for Error is an interesting film for the way it handles tensions among Americans and Germans in the US during World War II, but interesting is about the kindest thing you could say about it.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Clare Booth Luce's once-timely stage comedy Margin for Error was indifferently transferred to the screen in 1943. Milton Berle stars as Moe Finkelstein, a Jewish Brooklyn policeman assigned to guard Nazi consul Karl Baumer (Otto Preminger) in pre-WW II New York.
