The Tall Target

Slave Rachel (Ruby Dee), finally convinced of a plot against president-elect Lincoln, tells policeman Kennedy (Dick Powell) what she knows, then her owner (Paula Raymond) intrudes, in Anthony Mann's The Tall Target, 1951.

Taken hostage by the man (Leif Erickson) impersonating him, policeman Kennedy (Dick Powell) tries to turn the tables and is rescued by Jeffers (Adolphe Menjou), in Anthony Mann's Lincoln assassination-attempt drama The Tall Target, 1951.

Policeman Kennedy (Dick Powell), suspecting a plot against president-elect Lincoln, just catches the Washington train, dodges conductor Crowley (Will Geer), and seeks his missing boss, early in Anthony Mann's The Tall Target, 1951.

Railroad men Will Geer and Victor Kilian, cop Regis Toomey, star Dick Powell (as "Kennedy"), with Tom Powers, Adolphe Menjou et al, opening Anthony Mann's drama of the attempt on president-elect Lincoln's life, The Tall Target, 1951.