The Tall Target is a 1951 crime film starring Dick Powell as a police sergeant who tries to stop the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at a train stop as Lincoln travels to his inauguration. It is based on the alleged Baltimore Plot.

元末明初， 江西中书平章徐进得知皇上要来扫陈友谅衣冠冢，派其义子靖王朱建雄先行安排一事，心内蹊跷。陈友谅义女陈莫愁领导的旧部知此事后，都主张杀朱建雄。莫愁虽只愿过安祥的民女生活，但又难违众愿。 　　元顺帝派京都鼓王刘云鹏假装叛变潜入南方，受到徐进等人接待。在衣冠家前，朱建雄化妆成商人，与扮成渔姑的莫愁有了一番对话。在明兵围来之际，他让莫愁逃跑，自己被明兵抓获。朱建雄让徐进往外传话要处死自己。陈莫愁让侍女秀秀化妆成自己潜入徐府搭救恩人。秀秀本是元朝女官，得机会后与刘云鹏接头，刘云鹏则利用徐进邀唱之机在徐府花园引起混乱，朱建雄无可奈何地走开了。 　　商船上，朱建雄再次见到莫愁，双方隐约觉察对方身份，莫愁感到朱的诚意，信任地离开了，副将林武却看清了这一切。朱建雄指使放了假莫愁，刘云鹏要秀秀杀陈莫愁，朱建雄。在莫愁陷入刘云鹏圈套之际， 朱建雄飞马相救。但莫愁部将将朱建雄抓了起来。 　　夜晚，秀秀救出朱建雄，朱建雄担心莫愁安危，执意下山。荒野中，秀秀向莫愁坦露自己身份，二人杀得难解难分，刘云鹏用暗器直刺莫愁，秀秀用自己身体保护了莫愁。刘云鹏痛悔不已。陈莫愁答了朱建雄招安一事。周天化逼朱建雄遵从圣意杀了陈氏乱党，朱建雄杀了周天化后，直奔衣冠冢，莫愁等正被明军团团围住。来不及分辨，朱建雄就被莫愁杀害，看到朱建雄口涌黑血，陈莫愁才恍然大悟。

Dr. Eugene Ferguson (Cary Grant), a renowned American brain surgeon, and his wife Helen (Paula Raymond) are vacationing in Latin America when a revolution breaks out. They are taken against their will to the country's dictator, Raoul Farrago (José Ferrer), who urgently needs a life-saving operation. 　　Over the next few days, while Ferguson trains assistants for the delicate operation, he witnesses various acts of brutality by the regime, especially by Colonel Adragon (Ramón Novarro), but his Hippocratic Oath compels him to do his best. 　　Roland Gonzales (Gilbert Roland), the rebel leader, kidnaps Helen to pressure her husband into making a fatal surgical "mistake." His message to Ferguson is intercepted by Isabel Farrago (Signe Hasso), the patient's wife, and the operation is a success. Helen is released unharmed when Farrago dies soon afterwards and his government is overthrown.