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04/08/1954 Western, War 1h 23m
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The suspense thriller of the year !

Overview

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.

  1. Hugo Fregonese

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Van Heflin

    Maj. Neal Benton

  2. Anne Bancroft

    Katy Bishop

  3. Richard Boone

    Capt. Lionel Foster

  4. Lee Marvin

    Lt. Keating

  5. Tommy Rettig

    Larry Bishop

  6. Peter Graves

    Capt. Frank Dwyer

  7. Douglas Spencer

    Rev. Douglas

  8. Paul Cavanagh

    Col. Tucker

  9. Will Wright

    Josiah Anderson

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2017-02-20
With a rebel yell, I cried more more more.

"This is a true story...it began on the night of September 26 1864, in a Union prison stockade at Plattsburgh, New York, not many miles from the Canadian border."

Tho director Hugo Fregonese's The Raid opens with the above written statement, it's not entirely accurate. Further research into what became known as "The St. Albans Raid" is required if you want the complete and unembellished story. However, The Raid is in structure and plot significantly in line with what happened back there in 1864. Lifting from the story entitled "Affair At St. Alb...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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