The Raid (1954)
The suspense thriller of the year !
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
- Date of release
- 1954-08-04
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (35)
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Western, War
- Director
- Hugo Fregonese
Casting
- Van Heflin — Maj. Neal Benton
- Anne Bancroft — Katy Bishop
- Richard Boone — Capt. Lionel Foster
- Lee Marvin — Lt. Keating
- Tommy Rettig — Larry Bishop
- Peter Graves — Capt. Frank Dwyer
- Douglas Spencer — Rev. Douglas
- Paul Cavanagh — Col. Tucker
- Will Wright — Josiah Anderson
- James Best — Lt. Robinson
- John Dierkes — Cpl. Fred Deane
- Helen Ford — Delphine Coates
Interesting facts
The Raid is a 1954 American Western film set during the American Civil War. It stars Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone and Lee Marvin. It is loosely based on a true incident, the St. Albans Raid, as well as the book by Herbert Ravenal Sass. However the film made a significant change, turning the raid into an act of revenge for William Tecumseh Sherman's burning of Atlanta.
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