The Raid (1954)
Van Heflin plays Major Neal Benton, a Confederate officer who has escaped from a Union prison camp at Plattsburgh and is plotting a raid on St. Albans, Vermont with five fellow escapees. The historical event is real.
Actor: Richard Boone
Richard Boone played the villain in The Raid and starred in Have Gun Will Travel for six seasons, which gave American television one of its first morally complicated western leads. The Shootist gave him a late antagonist opposite John Wayne.