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Hot damn, this is like if Anthony Mann made a Nate Heller thriller somehow set in 1861 and all during a single train voyage! It was nice to see young Ruby Dee have a rather substantial role. There’s a problem with his identification, though. Terse in its writing, which demonstrates rather than explains exposition, a daunting enough trick if it wasn't a historical drama; more terse still in Anthony Mann's stripped-to-the-bone directing, maybe the harshest of his career that I've seen. Upgrade to a Letterboxd Pro account to add your favorite services to this list—including any service and country pair listed on JustWatch—and to enable one-click … TMDb The Tall Target (1951) Plot. Anthony Mann is one of the, oh, five or so most skilled human beings to direct movies. A historical thriller set in 1861, but not as much of an anachronism as it would have been even a few months ago. Rewatched Apr 24, 2020. No late fees. The Tall Target 1951 ★★★ Watched Jul 14 , 2020 kgudsnuk’s review published on Letterboxd: There are also some officials who feel the same way and are using every means to get rid of Pusser. Also, this is not internet fan fiction, just a quirk of storytelling that happens sometimes when you don’t know what future presidents are going to be named. 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. The Tall Target 1951 ★★★½ . freedom is something I should’ve been born with.”, this was a bit slow-going and I never felt fully engaged with the story, but man if that line didn’t hit me like a train ruby dee is a revelation. While no modern artist could match Mann’s composition and mise en scène, I would be interested to actually see a remake of this (mostly because we need more train movies now of days). Dick Powell Paula Raymond Adolphe Menjou Marshall Thompson Ruby Dee Richard Rober Leif Erickson Will Geer Florence Bates Erville Alderson Olive Ball Barbara Billingsley Peter Brocco George Bunny John Butler John Call Ken Christy Harry Cody Frank Conlan Clancy Cooper Lucille Curtis John Damler Robert Easton Estelle Etterre Budd Fine Dan Foster A. Cameron Grant Robert Haines Jonathan Hale 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. Film data from TMDb. He arrives at his seat on the train to find a man already there, wearing Kennedy's own overcoat and brandishing his ticket and ID — in the train's reality, John Kennedy is no longer John Kennedy: this man is John Kennedy. They mostly succeed, even with a ridiculous script to carry. It’s like a proto-action-thriller! It’s literally historical fiction about a man trying to thwart a presidential assassination on a train. Taut, tense, chugging and whistling of trains in place of music on the soundtrack. 1-month free trial! “freedom isn’t a thing you should’ve been able to give me, miss ginny. The Tall Target (Anthony Mann, 1951) 7/10 Fairly engrossing thriller set on a moving train about the alleged Baltimore Plot. He inexplicably takes a shine to the hero and grows envious of his character and way of life. Upgrade to a Letterboxd Pro account to add your favorite services to this list—including any service and country pair listed on JustWatch—and to enable one-click … With Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson. Audience Reviews for The Tall Target Aug 18, 2020 An excellent film based on the alleged plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the way, via train, to his inauguration. Film data from TMDb. Powell is a New York policeman who has discovered the conspiracy. Josh is using Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists with friends. Mann savait ce qu'il faisait. Tall Tale 1995 ★★★½ . This was a really hard film for me to watch with all that is going on in my country right now. This…, David Blakeslee 4,276 films 817 63 Edit, Updated on 4/15/2021 - A list, arranged in order of original release, of all films associated with the Criterion Collection,…, So these are (most of) the films I've seen/wanna see that are at least 30 minutes long but at max.…, A huge thanks to everyone who added films, helped me find films with alternate titles,…, Jaime Grijalba 3,010 films 698 24 Edit. It would unquestionably benefit from…. I've often seen it described as a noir, and in a very general sense it certainly ticks a lot of those boxes (e.g., hard-bitten cop protagonist, dudes getting knocked out with the butts of guns, multiple breaches of trust). Anthony Mann, Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, and Ruby Dee try to class up this pulpy “whodunit, oh, now we know, but how will our hero ever catch the bad guy?” affair. Preserving this list for posterity as it disappeared. John Kennedy saves Abraham Lincoln. The confined box cars and narrow hallways of the setting add to the tense atmosphere and sense of nearby danger pressing in as our hero John Kennedy (Dick Powell) races against the clock to foil the plot. RIP Allan Fish, your film taste and writing lives on. Service. Service. And a Civil War noir at that! I’d be a sucker for that if it were a whole fleshed out genre. The Tall Target. The Tall Target 1951 ★★★ Watched Feb 20, 2021. mateus_barros’s films. All Films ; Fandango US ; Amazon US ; Amazon Video US ; iTunes US ; Upgrade to a Letterboxd Pro account to add your favorite services to this list—including any service and country pair listed on JustWatch—and to enable one-click … Using the boarding of train passengers as introduction is such efficient and sly exposition. *montell jordan voice* THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT! The president is Abraham Lincoln. History seems to be written against the plausibility of Anthony Mann's film, itself written by three individuals, but its basis comes from the truth that Lincoln did take serious precautions to avoid being vulnerable to an attempt on his life. set a movie on a train and i WILL watch it, I’m sick of sorting through concerts, series, and other non-movies. Dick Powell means to stop this plot in this fictionalized account. There is no review for this diary entry. A really well made film with a lot of tension, even though we know Lincoln made it through Baltimore alive. At just a plain enjoyment and entertainment level, this is just a really fun noir. There’s something about a movie set on a train that just... hits different. THE TALL TARGET comes packed with a real-live punch of political paranoia and lit with the sizzling fuse of noir-ish fatality ready to blow at the first foot out of step. The dialogue here, while sometimes bordering on historical exposition, is mostly tight and bursting with the type of sarcastic and dreary energy that Hawks perfected in The Big Sleep. ", Best known for a series of lean Westerns featuring James Stewart, director Anthony Mann helmed The Tall Target—a nearly indefinable film oddity. The incomparable Ruby Dee really seizes her few moments (given the meekest of dialogue) in this--a queen of subtext already. Le plan d'après, Lincoln regarde par la fenêtre du train un Capitole encore en construction. And very well known assurance that it doesn’t matter that it won’t happen...cause he was famously assassinated. A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride in 1861. Review by doctorinsermini. There really are two levels to how outstanding The Tall Target is. Watched by mateus_barros. © Letterboxd Limited. In order to prove his identity, Kennedy has to find someone else to make an identification — his face, his watch, and his words are all dismissed as invalid and unreliable evidence of who he is. The Tall Man is a story in luminous detail of two worlds clashing - and a haunting moral puzzle that no viewer will forget. Everyone who has watched The Tall Target. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. The Tall Target. It is, evidently, because Anthony Mann made it. A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride in 1861. Since the conspiracy in question—promulgated most adamantly by Lincoln's bodyguard Allan Pinkerton but disputed by many historians—was highly speculative in…. The ever-bubbling threat to explode and cause an irreparable rift in the time continuum as act of collision, as those engines chug and chug along as if it was their very lives depended on it. Il y a un fond de pessimisme malgré la résolution, avec cette réplique qui donne le titre au film "He's a tall target, we'll get another chance". Upgrade to a Letterboxd Pro account to add your favorite services to this list—including any service and country pair listed on JustWatch—and to enable one-click … Oh public transport, you really are that hellscape where all good things must go to die. Mobile site. This…. 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