• Source: The Raid (1954 film)

      • 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.


      Plot


      In 1864 during the American Civil War, a group of Confederate prisoners held in a Union prison stockade at Plattsburgh, New York, not many miles from the Canada–US border, escape. They head for Montréal, Quebec and then plan a raid across the border into St. Albans, Vermont, to rob its banks to replenish the Confederate treasury and burn buildings as revenge for Sherman's March to the Sea and to tie up the Union forces.
      Major Neal Benton (Van Heflin), the leader of the raid, heads into St. Albans as a spy and develops ambiguous feelings about what he is doing when he becomes friends with an attractive young war widow and her friendly son, who he boards with, masquerading as a Canadian businessman. Other raiders stay in an abandoned barn or pose as travelling street peddlers. One drunken member interrupts a church service and is promptly shot dead by Benton, the raid leader, almost giving away the plot. The townspeople shower Benton with gratitude for this, not realizing his own true identity.
      On the appointed day, Major Benton in town, and the other raiders at the barn, all don Confederate uniforms, take some citizens hostage, rob the bank's strongbox at gunpoint, burn down the town hall, and gallop north just ahead of an arriving Union force. Burning a bridge behind them, they barely elude the Union forces and make a successful getaway to nearby Canada.


      Cast


      Van Heflin as Maj. Neal Benton
      Anne Bancroft as Katy Bishop
      Richard Boone as Capt. Lionel Foster
      Lee Marvin as Lt. Keating
      Tommy Rettig as Larry Bishop
      Peter Graves as Capt. Frank Dwyer
      Douglas Spencer as Rev. Lucas
      Paul Cavanagh as Col. Tucker
      Will Wright as Josiah Anderson
      James Best as Lt. Robinson
      John Dierkes as Cpl. Fred Deane
      Helen Ford as Delphine Coates
      Dolores Fuller (uncredited)
      Claude Akins as Lieutenant Ramsey (uncredited)


      Trivia


      In the 18 January 1959 episode of the game show What's My Line?, Van Heflin the guest panellist, mentioned that Boone stole his movie from him, which the celebrity guest demurred.
      This movie utilized the same set as the Andy Griffith Show used. Josiah’s Bank was the exterior of the Mayberry courthouse.
      The version of this film was aired on the Fox Movie Channel and has a squeezed CinemaScope logo tacked in the beginning, however, the film was shot "flat" and is shown open-matte at an aspect ratio of 1.37:1.


      References




      External links


      The Raid at IMDb
      ‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› The Raid at AllMovie
      The Raid at the TCM Movie Database
      The Raid at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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