What is The Tall Target / Devil's Doorway about?

THE TALL TARGET, 1951, Warner Bros., 78 min. Dir. Anthony Mann. Detective Dick Powell tries to prevent the shooting of President Lincoln on a night train in 1861. A blueprint for the smart American action movie, full of twists and characters not who they seem to be. With Adolphe Menjou, Ruby Dee. DEVIL’S DOORWAY, 1950, Warner Bros., 84 min. Director Anthony Mann’s first true western focuses on decorated Union Civil War vet and Native American, Robert Taylor, who returns home to find his land seized by the government. A groundbreaking look at genocide, eminent domain and women’s rights (Paula Raymond is Taylor’s novice lawyer!). John Alton photographed Mann’s vivid portrait of the rape of the American West.

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What is The Tall Target / Devil's Doorway about?: THE TALL TARGET, 1951, Warner Bros., 78 min. Dir. Anthony Mann. Detective Dick Powell tries to prevent the shooting of President Lincoln on a night train in 1861. A blueprint for the smart American action movie, full of twists and characters not who they seem to be. With Adolphe Menjou, Ruby Dee.

DEVIL’S DOORWAY, 1950, Warner Bros., 84 min. Director Anthony Mann’s first true western focuses on decorated Union Civil War vet and Native American, Robert Taylor, who returns home to find his land seized by the government. A groundbreaking look at genocide, eminent domain and women’s rights (Paula Raymond is Taylor’s novice lawyer!). John Alton photographed Mann’s vivid portrait of the rape of the American West.