
Margin for Error (1939) - repro
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Clare Boothe Luce’s gripping satirical political thriller 'Margin for Error' completed a celebrated original Broadway premiere run at the Plymouth Theatre in 1939, running for an astonishing 283 performances. The clock-stopping drawing-room comedy-drama unfolds inside a German consulate office in a major American city on the immediate eve of World War II, tracking a cynical, unprincipled Nazi consul who orchestrates a frantic web of financial embezzlement, hidden blackmail, and espionage, collapsing into a high-stakes murder mystery when he is found dead. Directed by Otto Preminger, the historic original production starred Preminger himself alongside Sam Levene.

