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The Raid
The Raid
Directed by	Hugo Fregonese
Screenplay by	Sydney Boehm
Story by	Francis M. Cockrell; (as Francis Cockrell)
Based on	Affair at St. Albans; 1948 novel; by Herbert Ravenel Sass; (as Herbert Ravenal Sass)
Produced by	Robert L. Jacks
Starring	Van Heflin; Anne Bancroft; Richard Boone; Lee Marvin
Cinematography	Lucien Ballard
Edited by	Robert Golden
Music by	Roy Webb
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Panoramic Productions
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	August 4, 1954 (United States); August 20, 1954 (New York City);
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$650,000

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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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

This movie utilized the same set as the Andy Griffith Show used. Josiah’s Bank was the exterior of the Mayberry courthouse.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[2]

References

^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0810842441. p. 249
^ "The Raid (1954) – Trivia". IMDb. Retrieved January 27, 2022.

External links

The Raid at IMDb
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The Raid at the TCM Movie Database
The Raid at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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[1] Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0810842441. p. 249

[2] "The Raid (1954) – Trivia". IMDb. Retrieved January 27, 2022.

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 | name           = The Raid
 | caption        =
-| image	         = The Raid FilmPoster.jpeg
+| image          = The Raid FilmPoster.jpeg
 | director       = [[Hugo Fregonese]]
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-| writer         = [[Francis M. Cockrell|Francis Cockrell]] (Story)
 | screenplay     = [[Sydney Boehm]]
+| story          = [[Francis M. Cockrell]]<br>(as Francis Cockrell)
+| based_on       = {{based on|''Affair at St. Albans''<br>1948 novel|Herbert Ravenel Sass}}<br>(as Herbert Ravenal Sass)
 | starring       = [[Van Heflin]]<br>[[Anne Bancroft]]<br>[[Richard Boone]]<br>[[Lee Marvin]]
 | music          = [[Roy Webb]]
 | cinematography = [[Lucien Ballard]]
 | editing        = Robert Golden
+| color_process  = [[Technicolor]]
 | studio         = Panoramic Productions
-| distributor    = [[20th Century Fox|Twentieth Century-Fox]]
+| distributor    = [[20th Century Fox]]
-| released       = {{Film date|1954|8|4}}
+| released       = {{Film date|1954|8|4|United States|1954|8|20|New York City}}
 | runtime        = 83 minutes
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-| budget         = $650,000<ref>Solomon, Aubrey. ''Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series)''. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. {{ISBN|978-0-8108-4244-1}}. p249</ref>
+| budget         = $650,000<ref>Solomon, Aubrey. ''Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series)''. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. {{ISBN|978-0810842441}}. p. 249</ref>
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-'''''The Raid''''' is a 1954 [[Technicolor]] 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, turning the raid into an act of revenge for [[William Tecumseh Sherman|William Tecumseh Sherman's]] [[Battle of Atlanta|burning]] of [[Atlanta]].
+'''''The Raid''''' is a 1954 American [[western (genre)|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|William Tecumseh Sherman's]] [[Battle of Atlanta|burning]] of [[Atlanta]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
 ==Plot==
-In 1864 a group of Confederate prisoners held in a Union prison stockade at [[Plattsburgh (city), New York|Plattsburg, New York]], not many miles from the Canada–US border, escape. They head for Montreal, Canada and then plan a raid across the border into [[St. Albans (town), Vermont|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 Union forces.
+In 1864 during the [[American Civil War]], a group of Confederate prisoners held in a [[Union Army|Union]] prison stockade at [[Plattsburgh (city), New York|Plattsburgh, New York]], not many miles from the Canada–US border, escape. They head for [[Montreal|Montréal, Quebec]] and then plan a raid across the border into [[St. Albans (town), Vermont|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.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
-The leader of the raid, Major Neal Benton ([[Van Heflin]]), heads into St. Albans as a spy, and develops ambiguous feelings about what he is doing when he becomes friends with a young war widow and her son, who he boards with, masquerading as a Canadian businessman. Other raiders stay in an abandoned barn, or pose as traveling street peddlers. One drunken member interrupts a church service, and is promptly shot dead by the raid leader, almost giving away the plot.  On the appointed day, Major Burton 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.
+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.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
+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 [[Safe|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.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
 ==Cast==
-* [[Van Heflin]] as Maj. Neal Benton / Neal Swayze
+* [[Van Heflin]] as Maj. Neal Benton
-* [[Anne Bancroft]] as Katie Bishop
+* [[Anne Bancroft]] as Katy Bishop
 * [[Richard Boone]] as Capt. Lionel Foster
 * [[Lee Marvin]] as Lt. Keating
@@ Line 37: / Line 43: @@
 * Douglas Spencer as Rev. Lucas
 * [[Paul Cavanagh]] as Col. Tucker
-* [[Will Wright (actor)|Will Wright]] as Josiah Anderson, the Banker
+* [[Will Wright (actor)|Will Wright]] as Josiah Anderson
 * [[James Best]] as Lt. Robinson
 * [[John Dierkes]] as Cpl. Fred Deane
 * [[Helen Ford]] as Delphine Coates
+* [[Dolores Fuller]] (uncredited)
-* Harry Hines as Mr. Danzig
+* [[Claude Akins]] as Lieutenant Ramsey (uncredited)
-* [[Simon Scott (actor)|Simon Scott]] as Capt. Floyd Henderson
-* [[William Schallert]] as Rebel Soldier (uncredited)
+==Trivia==
-* [[Claude Akins]] as Lt. Ramsey (uncredited)
+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.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
+This movie utilized the same set as the ''Andy Griffith Show'' used. Josiah’s Bank was the exterior of the Mayberry courthouse.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
+The version of this film was aired on the [[FX Movie Channel|Fox Movie Channel]] and has a squeezed [[CinemaScope]] logo tacked in the beginning, however, the film was shot "flat" and is shown [[Open matte|open-matte]] at an aspect ratio of 1.37:1.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047388/trivia?ref_=ttgf_ql_1|title=The Raid (1954) – Trivia|publisher=[[IMDb]]|access-date=2022-01-27}}</ref>
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
 * {{IMDb title|0047388}}
-* {{AllRovi movie|107163}}
+* {{AllMovie title|107163}}
-* {{tcmdb title|87590}}
+* {{TCMDb title|87590}}
 * {{AFI film|id=51316|title=The Raid}}
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