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The Tall Target. 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. It is based on the alleged Baltimore Plot.
The Tall Target: Directed by Anthony Mann. 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
Tall Target, The -- (Movie Clip) The Man Went Away Policeman Kennedy (Dick Powell), suspecting a plot against president-elect Lincoln, just catches the Washington train, dodges conductor Crowley (Will Geer), and seeks his missing boss, early in Anthony Mann's The Tall Target, 1951.
- Anthony Mann, Joel Freeman, Jerry Thorpe
- Dick Powell
The Tall Target. 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 ...
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- Dick Powell
- Anthony Mann
- Mystery & Thriller
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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 the movie ...
The Tall Target (1951) The Tall Target (1951) is a historical film noir crime film starring Dick Powell as a latter-day detective working to foil an assassination plot against then President-Elect Abraham Lincoln. The action is based on an alleged real life plot to kill the President in 1861, and this historical fact of a possible assassination ...
