Double Feature: The Tall Target and Terror On a Train December 17, 2008

7 p.m.: THE TALL TARGET
(Anthony Mann, US 1951, 78 min.)

Hearing of a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in 1861, Dick Powell as Detective John Kennedy (!) boards a train in the hopes of thwarting the plot.

Then at 8:30 p.m. : TERROR ON A TRAIN
(TIME BOMB, Ted Tetzlaff, UK 1953, 72 min.)

Glenn Ford stars as a US explosives disposal expert called upon to dismantle a bomb placed on a British freight train carrying sea mines during WWII.

Official Website: http://dryden.eastmanhouse.org/films/the-tall-target-and-terror-on-a-train/