Seven Angry Men

Seven Angry Men is a 1955 American Western film directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring Raymond Massey, Debra Paget and Jeffrey Hunter.

[1] It is about the abolitionist John Brown, particularly his involvement in Bleeding Kansas and his leadership of the Raid on Harpers Ferry.

After cutting a bloody swath through Kansas, Brown and his followers take refuge in a warehouse at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, where he meets his own personal Waterloo at the hands of federal troops.

In July 1954 Walter Mirisch announced the film would be one of 15 Allied Artists would make over the next 6 months.

[4] The New York Times critic called it a "competent if hardly inspired Allied Artists presentation".