The Tall Target

The Tall Target
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAnthony Mann
Screenplay byGeorge Worthing Yates
Art Cohn
Story byGeorge Worthing Yates
Daniel Mainwaring (as Geoffrey Homes)
Produced byRichard Goldstone
StarringDick Powell
Paula Raymond
Adolphe Menjou
CinematographyPaul C. Vogel
Edited byNewell P. Kimlin
Music byBronislau Kaper
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • August 17, 1951 (1951-08-17)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$966,000
Box office$620,000

The Tall Target is a 1951 American historical crime Western 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 film's sets were designed by the art directors Eddie Imazu and Cedric Gibbons.