Film

John Brown's Raid

19601hDrama TV Movie

Director: Sidney Lumet
Year: 1960

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.

Top cast

Roberts Blossom

Stevens

James Broderick

Watson Brown

Thomas A. Carlin

Leeman

Ossie Davis

Dangerfield Newby

Robert Duvall

Oliver Brown

Earle Hyman

Emperor Green

Tim O'Connor

Doctor

James Mason

John Brown

Wesley Addy

Col. Lewis Washington

James Greene

Coppoc

Directed by

Sidney Lumet

Written by

Robert J. Crean