The Tall Target

Former police officer John Kennedy doesn't have a ticket, but he's determined to stay aboard the overnight train rolling from New York to Washington DC. He's convinced that someone ' or some ones ' among the passengers intends to kill newly elected President Abraham Lincoln when the train stops in Baltimore. The true-life Baltimore Plot provides the inspiration for this Hollywood thriller directed with film noir overtones by Anthony Mann and possessing a real feel for the powder-keg political atmosphere of 1861. Dick Powell (Murder, My Sweet) portrays Kennedy with appropriate grit, sifting through layers of duplicity and confronting escalating dangers as the Night Express rumbles toward destination... or assassination.

Director: Anthony Mann
Producer: Richard Goldstone
Actor: Dick Powell
Actor: Paula Raymond
Actor: Adolphe Menjou
Actor: Marshall Thompson
Actor: Ruby Dee
Actor: Leif Erickson
Actor: Will Geer
Actor: Victor Kilian
Actor: Katharine Warren
Actor: Peter Brocco
Actor: Barbara Billingsley
Actor: Will Wright
Actor: Regis Toomey
Actor: Katherine Warren
Actor: Richard Rober
Actor: Florence Bates
Actor: Jeff Richards
Actor: Tom Powers
Actor: Leslie Kimmell
Actor: James Harrison
Actor: Dan Foster
Actor: Brad Morrow
Actor: Percy Helton
Actor: Lou Nova
Actor: Clancy Cooper
Actor: Robert Malcolm
Actor: Ken Christy
Actor: Bert Roach
Actor: Emmett Lynn
Actor: Charles Wagenheim
Actor: Jonathan Hale
Actor: Cameron Grant
Actor: Robert Easton
Actor: John Butler
Actor: John Call
Actor: Frank Conlan
Actor: Dan White
Actor: Stapleton Kent
Actor: Erville Alderson
Actor: Frank Sully
Actor: Mickey Martin
Actor: Alvin Hammer
Actor: John Damler
Actor: Jack Sterling
Actor: Phil Schumacher
Actor: Tom Monroe
Actor: Tom Murray
Actor: Robert Spencer
Actor: Budd Fine
Actor: Wilson Wood
Actor: Clarence Hennecke
Actor: Robert Stephenson
Actor: Napoleon Whiting
Actor: Frank Billy Mitchell
Actor: Irving Smith
Actor: George Bunny
Actor: Bill Sundholm
Actor: Roger Moore
Actor: Nikki Juston
Actor: Robert Strong
Actor: Estelle Ettere
Actor: Lucile Curtis
Actor: Marjorie Jackson
Actor: Sherry Hall
Actor: Harry Cody