The Tall Target (1951)





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.


Books with an entry on The Tall Target

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Larry Langman & David Ebner
Encyclopedia of American Spy Films
New York & London, 1990

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Tall Target

Robert Porfirio, Daniel Mainwaring (1902-1977), in: Robert Porfirio, Alain Silver and James Ursini (eds.), Film noir reader 3, New York, 2002