Interesting Visit

[Gene C]

(05-11-2017 02:57 PM)BettyO Wrote:  Lt (later General) Bennett Young died in 1919. It was he, who at 20-21 years of age, instigated the Saint Alban's Raid. He was an exceedingly interesting man - captured and tried for the raid who was later promoted to general. A movie entitled "The Raid" was produced in 1954 starring Van Heflin. His book, Confederate Wizards of the Saddle concerns his membership in John Hunt Morgan's unit. I checked, but no mention of Sara Slater. Movie is available for download from Youtube and the book is available on Internet Archive.

Movie- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uECSJkbO9BA

Book - https://archive.org/details/cu31924030921260

I watched the movie, and in addition to Van Heflin, it stars Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone (of Have Gun Will Travel) Lee Marvin and Peter Graves (of Mission Impossible) A fairly good movie, with liberties taken with actual events. The youtube version is a bit fuzzy and the timing of dialogue and the actors lips is a bit off, somewhat like the old Japanese monster movies.

Here are a few interesting ? reviews of the movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047388/reviews