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Van Heflin | Maj. Neal Benton |
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Anne Bancroft | Katy Bishop |
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Richard Boone | Capt. Lionel Foster |
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Lee Marvin | Lt. Keating |
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Peter Graves | Capt. Frank Dwyer |
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Hugo Fregonese | Director |
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Sydney Boehm | Screenplay |
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Francis M. Cockrell | Story |
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.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.
Theatrical : 1954-08-04 : United States of America