The Raid is a Technicolor 1954 American 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, moving the action from 1864 to 1865, turning the raid into an act of revenge for William Tecumseh Sherman's burning of Atlanta. In 1864 a group of Confederate prisoners held in a Union prison stockade at Plattsburg, New York, not many miles from the Canadian border, escape. They head for Canada and... plan a raid across the border into St. Albans, Vermont, to rob its banks and burn buildings.
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| Release date: | August 4, 1954 |
| Directed by: | Hugo Fregonese |
| Runtime: | 83 Minutes |
| Music by: | Roy Webb |
| Cinematography: | Lucien Ballard |