Overview
White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Based on true events.
Cast
- Roberts Blossom as Stevens
- James Broderick
- Thomas A. Carlin
- Ossie Davis as Dangerfield Newby
- Robert Duvall
- Earle Hyman
- Tim O'Connor
- James Mason as John Brown
- Wesley Addy as Col. Lewis Washington
- James Greene