The Tall Target

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. The film has no conventional score. Famed composer Bronislau Kaper worked on the film, without receiving onscreen credit, but only orchestrated two period songs which appear as source music: Battle Hymn of the Republic and Rally Round the Flag.