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The Raid is a Technicolor 1954 film set during the American Civil War. It stars Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone and Lee Marvin. In 1864 in a Union prison stockade at Plattsburg, New York, not many miles from the Canadian border, a group of Confederate prisoners and head for Canada and plan a raid across the border into St. Albans, Vermont, to rob its banks and burn buildings. 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 Sherman's burning of Atlanta.