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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 b...
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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.
Aug 12, 2008 · Today it’s TCM and Netflix where subterranean classics surface; keep an eye out on both for “The Tall Target,” Anthony Mann’s 1951 period-piece film noir, set in 1861, about a New York ...
Anthony Mann’s The Tall Target (1951) boasts the preposterous gimmick of setting a noir thriller in the 19th century. Gone are the fedoras, whitewall tires and semi-automatics, but the stark atmospherics and wry detectives remain. Mann was responsible for the genre’s darkest visions, in which oceans of deep black smother hapless lowlifes when they’re not being scalded by white-hot lamps ...
“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. What comes across at first as disorienting in a noir …
After a few years in supporting roles, Raymond left Columbia for MGM to try her luck in 1949. She fared well at MGM in bigger roles and better films, including Crisis (1950; with Cary Grant and Gilbert Roland), The Tall Target (1951; with Dick Powell and Marshall Thompson), and The Sellout (1952; with John Hodiak). Despite good notices, Raymond ...
Jan 24, 2020 · The Tall Target. By Richard Brody. January 24, 2020. This historical film noir, set in 1861, is centered on a plot against President-elect Lincoln’s life as he travels to his Inauguration. Dick ...
