( avast and slight spoiler ahead ) i get this tape from my local library and which keep a copy for obvious reason . i once go to the town of matewan and west virginia and and in a little museum there i saw the schedule for the town theatre citra may 1954. movie would change at the theatre each day . a there would be no tv for another decade or so in those part and this be much of the available entertainment in the town . the raid seem to have be make for town like matewan in the 1950 . although it wasn not list for that month and i be sure show there some monday or tuesday night for an audience which probably wasn not too demand . the historical raid daring and remarkably successful do not seem to have be very well research and so the movie be full of hollywood embellishment and include a loose cannon play by lee marvin . marvin use the opportunity to practice be liberty valance . and st. albans seem to have have more yankee soldier come and go through the town than washington d. c. have . what really make me snicker be when the raider change into their confederate uniform . only in tacky civil war painting do rebel uniform look so pristine . when anne bancroft son catch van heflin in his uniform just before the raid and i expect the boy to think it be halloween . and then there anne bancroft herself . while watch the movie i actually look on the imdb to see if there be a second anne bancroft . the then studio contract actress look nothing like in her late film and and have none of the presence she would later have in the miracle worker and agnes of god and and of course the graduate . worth see if only 1 ) . you live in st. albans and 2 ) . you have a couple hour to kill on a hollywood fictionalization of your home town big news story .