The American movie titled The Raid and directed by Hugo Fregonese was released in 1954 and is categorized as western.
Key cast members of The Raid include Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin.
The plot of The Raid is: In 1864 a group of Confederate prisoners held in a Union prison stockade at Plattsburg, New York, not many miles from the Canada–US border, escape. They head for Canada and 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 Union forces.
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 a young widow and her son..
