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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.
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
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...
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- Dick Powell
- Anthony Mann
- Mystery & Thriller
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
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 ...
Directed by. Anthony Mann. Writing Credits. Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. Produced by. Richard Goldstone. ... producer. Cinematography by. Paul Vogel. ... director of photography (as Paul C. Vogel) Editing by. Newell P. Kimlin. Art Direction by. Cedric Gibbons. Eddie Imazu. Set Decoration by. Ralph S. Hurst. Edwin B. Willis.
The Tall Target (1951) - Film Noir. Classic Film Noir exposes the myths by which we fulfil our desires — sex — murder — and the suburban American dream. 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.
