

The Tall Target
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
Director(s)
Anthony Mann
Leslie H. Martinson
Joel Freeman
Cast & crew

Will Wright
Thomas Ogden (uncredited)
Robert Haines
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Mickey Martin
Daniel - Messenger (uncredited)

Robert Easton
Young Southerner (uncredited)
Robert Strong
Minor Role (uncredited)

Will Geer
Homer Crowley

Florence Bates
Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
Chester Jones
Pedestrian (uncredited)
Phil Schumacher
Zoaves (uncredited)
Wilson Wood
Dispatcher (uncredited)

Budd Fine
Pinkerton Man (uncredited)

Barbara Billingsley
Young Mother (uncredited)

Katherine Warren
Mrs. Gibbons (uncredited)

Dan White
Passenger in Club Car (uncredited)

Victor Kilian
John K. Gannon (uncredited)

Peter Brocco
Fernandina (uncredited)

Charles Wagenheim
Telegraph Clerk (uncredited)
George Bunny
Hawker (uncredited)
Clarence Hennecke
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Napoleon Whiting
Hawker (uncredited)

Frank Sully
Telegram Messenger (uncredited)

Erville Alderson
Minister (uncredited)
William Sundholm
Hawker (uncredited)

Leif Erickson
Stranger
Lou Nova
Zouave Sergeant (uncredited)

Leslie H. Martinson
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Mitchell Lewis
Sleeping Train Passenger (uncredited)

Percy Helton
Beamish (uncredited)
Jack Sterling
Zoaves (uncredited)

Anthony Mann
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Roger Moore
Minor Role (uncredited)

Marshall Thompson
Lance Beaufort
Robert R. Stephenson
Hawker (uncredited)

Estelle Etterre
Little Old Lady (uncredited)
Sherry Hall
Man in Boarding Line (uncredited)

Jonathan Hale
Passenger from Carolina (uncredited)

Ruby Dee
Rachel

Dick Powell
John Kennedy

Paula Raymond
Ginny Beaufort

Clancy Cooper
Brakeman (uncredited)

Adolphe Menjou
Caleb Jeffers

Richard Rober
Lt. Coulter
Olive Ball
Hawker (uncredited)
John Butler
Miller (uncredited)
John Call
Clerk (uncredited)
Ken Christy
Detective (uncredited)
Harry Cody
Minor Role (uncredited)
Frank Conlan
Clerk (uncredited)
Lucille Curtis
Minor Role (uncredited)

John Damler
Division Manager (uncredited)
Dan Foster
Dapper Man (uncredited)
A. Cameron Grant
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Alvin Hammer
Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
James Harrison
Allan Pinkerton (uncredited)

Paul Harvey
Minor Role (uncredited)
Marjorie Jackson
Minor Role (uncredited)
Wilfred Jackson
Newsboy (uncredited)
Nikki Juston
Minor Role (uncredited)
Stapleton Kent
New Brunswick Stationmaster (uncredited)
Leslie Kimmell
Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)

Emmett Lynn
News Vendor (uncredited)
Robert Malcolm
Patrolman (uncredited)

Billy Mitchell
Hawker (uncredited)
Tom Monroe
Zoaves (uncredited)

Brad Morrow
Winfield (uncredited)
Thomas Murray
Zoaves (uncredited)

Tom Powers
Simon G. Stroud (uncredited)
Bob Rich
Zoaves (uncredited)

Jeff Richards
Philadelphia Police Officer (uncredited)

Bert Roach
Politician (uncredited)
Irving Smith
Hawker (uncredited)
Robert Spencer
Zoaves (uncredited)

Regis Toomey
Insp. Tim Reilly (uncredited)
Rodney Wooton
Newsboy (uncredited)
Joel Freeman
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