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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.
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- Adventure, Crime, Drama
- Anthony Mann
- 1951-08
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.
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
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 (Dick...
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- Dick Powell
- Anthony Mann
- Mystery & Thriller
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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. The historical fact of a possible assassination attempt on the President-Elect Abraham Lincoln makes ...
David Lumb. 1.13K subscribers. 2.7K views 5 years ago. ...more. A New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate...
