Quantrill's Raiders

At several times during the film, characters are seen carrying the Colt Single Action Army Revolver (better known as the "Peacemaker").

This weapon was not manufactured until the 1870s, years after the end of the American Civil War.

The Butcher William Quantrill arose the imaginary of a whole generation on western genre, thousand pictures were done almost in large industrial scale, Quantrill's Riders besides to be inaccurate is also brazenly flimsy, for instance in one specific sequence Captain Alan Westcott (Steve Cochran) asking Quantrill (Leo Gordon) how many soldiers he already had, he answer around forty, then Alan advise him to gather at least sixty soldiers at upcoming Lawrence's arsenal raid, due it were surround by strong US Union forces on the city, nevertheless at final scenes when really Quantrill invaded Lawrence just fifteen of them appears there, I think that someone didn't knew check properly, also at jail when Westcott asking for talk with the boy, suddenly he put a dagger at his neck, a good man never could do such ruthlessness and be forgiven and finally Quantrill's death to crow it all the inaccurate facts, I know this is a merely dramatization, nonetheless the producers shouldn't try to re-write the history to doesn't fall at mass grave of the hypotriques!!Resume:First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 5.

Edward Bernds is best known for helming Three Stooges' movies, such as "Gold Raiders," "The Three Stooges Meet Hercules," and "The Three Stooges in Orbit." Mind you, Bernds dabbled in other genres, such as science fiction with "The Queen of Outer Space" and "Space Master X-7.

On one level this is quite an entertaining western in glorious Technicolor and Cinemascope with good action sequences directed in a no nonsense fashion by Edward Bernds who works in the confines of a limited budget.Steve Cochran plays a rather colorless hero (one wonders whether Rory Calhoun turned the part down) but where the film benefits is in the presence of Leo Gordon,one of the great western villains.

Probably the shortest widescreen film in Technicolor, this Civil War themed western is unique in the sense that it utilizes some very different themes to tell its story. Quadrill (Leo Gordon) is an outlaw who seems to sell himself to the highest bidder to both sides of the war, and plays both ends against the middle.

One's evaluation of this film requires a downgrade just for it's historical inaccuracy. To call the film "Quantrill's Raiders" and then portray the Lawrence Massacre as a posse of a dozen men attempting to raid the Union Arsenal there and lay waste to the city just totally misses the mark of what actually happened.

Lawrence, Kansas had to go undergo a seizure from both sides in the Civil War.

This bland and historically suspect western is made in Technicolor and Cinemascope with efficient action sequences in this otherwise bland western which has become a rather obscure film over the years.Steve Cochrane plays a Confederate agent Alan Westcott organising Quantrill's gang on a raid of a federal arsenal in Kansas.

This film struck a chord because when I was a child in the 1950s the local newspaper billed it as "Quantrilla Raider". I tried to see as many Westerns as possible, but missed out because of school.

This brisk Cinemascope Civil War tale is a no nonsense movie that runs around 70 minutes and makes good use of its time.It tells of the raid on Lawrence,Kansas by Quantrill and his men during the war.