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The Tall Target is a 1951 American historical crime film directed by Anthony Mann and starring Dick Powell, Paula Raymond and Adolphe Menjou. Powell stars as a police sergeant who tries to stop the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at a train stop as Lincoln travels to his inauguration.
With Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson. A New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861.
- (2.3K)
- Adventure, Crime, Drama
- Anthony Mann
- 1951-08
1h 18m. Abraham Lincoln will be traveling by rail to his inauguration in Washington and a plot is being hatched to assassinate him as he passes through Baltimore. New York detective John Kennedy ...
- (5)
- Dick Powell
- Anthony Mann
- Mystery & Thriller
Tall Target, The -- (Movie Clip) One Shot And You're Through Taken hostage by the man (Leif Erickson) impersonating him, policeman Kennedy (Dick Powell) tries to turn the tables and is rescued by Jeffers (Adolphe Menjou), in Anthony Mann's Lincoln assassination-attempt drama The Tall Target, 1951.
- Anthony Mann, Joel Freeman, Jerry Thorpe
- Dick Powell
Mar 6, 2012 · A New York City police detective, coincidentally named John Kennedy played by Dick Powell, gets wind of the plot and, facing down his superiors, turns in his badge, boards the train, and attempts...
- Condé Nast
- 3 min
“The Tall Target” takes the locked door mystery of an Agatha Christie novel, and wraps it up in the shadowy trappings of noir. Just for good measure, Western genre pro Anthony Mann puts the setting at the end of the frontier; on the eve of the Civil War.
Summaries. A New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861.
