Overview
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
Cast
- Van Heflin as Maj. Neal Benton
- Anne Bancroft as Katy Bishop
- Richard Boone as Capt. Lionel Foster
- Lee Marvin as Lt. Keating
- Tommy Rettig as Larry Bishop
- Peter Graves as Capt. Frank Dwyer
- Douglas Spencer as Rev. Douglas
- Paul Cavanagh as Col. Tucker
- Will Wright as Josiah Anderson
- James Best as Lt. Robinson