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	The Alamo (1960 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Alamo was released in 1960 by United Artists.
		The subject of the movie is the 1836 Battle of the Alamo.
		The film tells a highly romanticized, hagiographic version of events, in which the defenders are all portrayed as larger-than-life martyrs, and none of the Mexican characters is developed in depth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Alamo_(1960_movie) (383 words)

	Political Film Society - The Alamo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Alamo, directed by Texasphile John Lee Hancock, appears to be one such project, a contemporary remake of the 1960 John Wayne movie of the same title that was intended to stiffen American resolve during the Cold War.
		The film begins with titles informing filmviewers that the site of what later became known as the Alamo was founded in 1718 within the settlement of San Antonio as a Catholic mission, similar to the various missions in California.
		The mission, according to the film, later fell into disuse (in 1793 the mission ended, Spain established the Alamo as a fort a decade later, and a militia of Texians and Tejanos ousted a Mexican military contingent in December 1835).
	www.geocities.com /polfilms/alamo.html (819 words)

	Alamo, The
		"The Alamo" is a surprisingly rousing and energetic cinematic retelling of the Alamo legend.
		Spoiler alert: The 1960 film had a glorious and violent end for Davey Crockett, but his death in the new version is more understated and no less satisfying.
		The new film was well directed by the Texas born, John Lee Hancock, who does not have a particularly impressive resume.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/A/alamo.htm (486 words)

	EI > Columns > ‘Remember the Alamo!’ — an affectionate retrospect of Alamo movies
		As I mentioned, all that stands of the original Alamo is the mission (restored, with roof intact) and a fairly large section of the long barracks, which is joined by a wall to the mission.
		The Alamo and its grounds are owned by the State of Texas but entrusted to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas for its upkeep.
		Dickinson (wife of Captain Dickinson, one of the Alamo defenders), her infant daughter and the few other survivors of the battle were discovered by the attacking Mexican army.
	www.einsiders.com /features/columns/alamo_part1.php (1700 words)

	THE ALAMO (1960) - DVD
		With The Alamo lying smack between them, the fewer than 200 men there must take on thousands of Mexican soldiers in the hopes of giving the main troops a head start on their mission--which will help the war effort but lead the Alamo forces to their doom, natch.
		There's no denying that Wayne builds a stolidly respectful shrine to the myth of the Alamo, or that he believes in the mission to the extent that he can't be bothered to argue for its rightness.
		And this means that the film hangs heavily in space, constantly alerting you to an importance that it can't prove is there, which first confuses us and ultimately sends us home unsatisfied.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/alamo1960.htm (682 words)

	Visiting The Alamo: Movies, myth, history -- and Davy Crockett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		OTHER ALAMOS: The set for the newest Alamo movie is not open to the public, but the chapel and other structures used in John Wayne's 1960 film "The Alamo" is north of Brackettville, Texas, about 125 miles west of San Antonio.
		The film is based on the dramatic true story of a handful of ordinary men who became heroes when they held the Alamo for 13 days against the onslaught of thousands of Mexican soldiers.
		In front of the chapel is the Alamo cenotaph, a 60-foot-tall stone monument bearing portraits of Crockett, Bowie and the other leaders and the names of those killed in the battle.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04112/301521.stm (1294 words)

	The Alamo (1960)
		Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie bravely defend the Alamo in 1836 against a Mexican army that greatly outnumbers the defenders.
		Stunt men were equally touched that the opening prayer included a request that no one be seriously injured during the filming — where climactic battle scenes were projected to feature 7,000 extras, 1,500 horses, and 400 unpredictable Texas longhorns.
		Baby Boomers who grew up watching edited versions of The Alamo on television will revel in the widescreen version (2.20:1 aspect ratio), which illustrates that as a director, particularly in the action scenes, Wayne apparently learned a lot from mentors Howard Hawks and John Ford.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=20&buy=open&CID=18&PID=10089800&Tab=reviews (519 words)

	New University Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In protecting the Alamo, these men work together to protect the future of their families and the future of the country they would die fighting for.
		Contrary to John Wayne’s 1960 film, “The Alamo,” this modern 2004 version of the historic event presents the story with present-day studio effects.
		Period films, such as this one that presents an era of the past, are always interesting to watch.
	horus.vcsa.uci.edu /article.php?id=1683 (706 words)

	SOUNDWAVES CINEMA: The Alamo (2004)
		They are concerned, of course, with a different era for the Alamo, the same era presented in the 1960 film that starred (and was directed by) John Wayne.
		Hancock stages the climactic battle in the Alamo during the night, as opposed to Wayne's version that presented a daytime battle.
		THE ALAMO will not be an Oscar contender by any means; for one thing, its way too early in the year, and in spite of being well executed it's not an Oscar level story or film.
	soundwavescinema.com /Cinema/2004/Alamo.htm (1013 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: The Alamo
		The 2004 version of “The Alamo” stars Billy Bob Thornton of “Bad Santa” as Davy Crockett, one of the legendary characters who died at the Alamo, along with James Bowie (played by Jason Patric of “Narc”), inventor of the famous Bowie knife.
		Although this film is about the battle for the Alamo, the actual battle takes up only a small portion of the movie.
		Previous films have portrayed the American defenders as one-dimensional heroes and the Mexicans as faceless villains.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/new/alamo.html (759 words)

	The Flipcritic: THE ALAMO (**½) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)*
		The movie is based on events that led to and flowed from the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas revolution in early 1836, which resulted in death of nearly all of the Alamo’s defenders.
		Crockett in the 1960 film of the same name, but in a performance so heroic that it stripped his character of any human qualities that one could relate to.
		Speaking of honoring history, the film is remarkably accurate, which is a rarity among historical recreations (you can this link from the University of Texas and see these recorded events parallel the film: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/AA/qea2.html).
	www.flipcritic.net /archives/000100.html (1273 words)

	Alamo, The (2004): Reviews
		Politics aside, this is a handsome film with orange skies to die for, or under, and a lovely score by Carter Burwell.
		The real struggle in The Alamo is between historic revisionism and Hollywood notions of sacrifice, and it's not much of a contest: Hollywood wins, as it did in John Wayne's sprawling, factually spurious 1960 film.
		The good news first: The Alamo is probably the most historically accurate depiction yet to reach the screen of the famous siege.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/alamo (1375 words)

	The Alamo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Disney's The Alamo, pulled from release at Christmas and chopped from its original three hours to two hours and fifteen minutes, hits the highlights of the legend and corrects much of the overblown myth perpetrated by John Wayne in his 1960 film.
		You don't have to have followed the film's tortured path to the screen -- Ron Howard was going to make it a bloody, more expensive and expansive R-rated epic starring Russell Crowe -- to develop a sense of The Alamo that might have been.
		America's Thermopylae, a last stand against long odds, is a natural story to film, but not one that can be told, with a fresh eye, on a Disney budget and with a Disney rating.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /alamo/review.htm (717 words)

	Film Review: The Alamo
		The Mexicans were on the march, reclaiming land stolen from them by white settlers who had fought the Indian wars and won.
		The 1960 version of this siege, directed by and starring John Wayne, was three-and-a-half hours long.
		Patrick Wilson has the thankless task of playing Col William Travis, a posh young cavalry officer, who is put in charge of defending The Alamo, even though he hasn't the personality to control this bearded, unwashed rabble.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/a/alamo_2004.shtml (474 words)

	Remember the Alamo? By David Edelstein
		The director of the new Alamo movie—a Lone Star native with the revolutionary moniker of John Lee Hancock—has said that he wanted to make the definitive story of the fabled Texas last stand, not like that fat hunk of myth-making propaganda fashioned by John Wayne in 1960, at the apex of the Cold War.
		In this new telling (the script is credited to Leslie Bohem, Stephen Gaghan, and Hancock), the story of the Alamo is one of those quintessential American myths: of ragtag underdogs outmanned and outgunned, holding their own against a large, better equipped, and sadistic foe.
		The real Alamo fighters knew of Santa Anna's approach for quite a while, but in the movie it's presented as a rude shock—most of all to Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), who enlisted in the Texas militia to revitalize his political career and hadn't figured on being at the wrong end of a siege.
	www.slate.com /id/2098492 (1229 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Alamo movie filled with 'fairy tales' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		A new movie set to open this weekend entitled "The Alamo" is filled with revisionist history and political correctness, claims a pro-military nonprofit organization.
		In a statement, Freedom Alliance slammed Michael Eisner and Walt Disney Pictures, the film's maker, for rewriting history in the movie, which is scheduled to open April 9.
		"'Alamo' is expected to deal with many of the historical complexities – including the Mexican point of view – that were glossed over in John Wayne's 1960 film," Variety reported.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37909 (615 words)

	Alamo commands reverence \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		The Alamo is an 18th-century Roman Catholic mission that became a 19th-century makeshift fort that became a 20th-century household word.
		Hundreds of artifacts of the Alamo battle and its heroes - among them, a beaded vest belonging to Crockett and more than a few Bowie knives - are on display in the chapel and the rebuilt Long Barrack, where much of the 1836 fighting took place.
		In front of the chapel is the Alamo cenotaph, a 60-foot-high stone monument bearing portraits of Crockett, Bowie and the other leaders and the names of those killed in the battle.
	www.azstarnet.com /dailystar/printSN/17426.php (997 words)

	DVD REVIEW \| Master And Commander, The Office Season Two, The Alamo, Remember The Alamo, Richard III, Helter Skelter, ...
		Laurence Olivier’s 1955 film of Shakespeare’s darkest historical play is a colourful, rich piece of work, stylized and pinned to Olivier’s spiky performance as the hunchbacked, morally repulsive usurper of the English throne.
		The film itself is typical TV product, all bright, flat lighting, stabbing zooms and meat cleaver edits, but it captures the sickly social paranoia of the era perfectly.
		This reissue of the classic drug scare exploitation film is a lovingly produced bit of work, which includes both the original fl and white film and a satirically colourized version where actors have Barbie doll skin tone and pot smoke is exhaled in a variety of lurid colours.
	www.rickmcginnis.com /dvd/082.htm (1124 words)

	Comments
		Clayton says he obtained a screenplay of the film and found it to be "full of inaccuracies." He says Davy Crockett is portrayed as a "frightened wanderer" who wanted to escape "over the wall" in the dark of night during the historic battle, but felt paralyzed and trapped by his own underserved heroic reputation.
		In addition, says the group, Col. James Bowie, the Alamo defender famous for his knife-fighting skills, is portrayed as a land-swindling slave trader.
		Richard Bruce Winders, curator of the Alamo museum, said moviegoers who expect a close remake of the John Wayne "Alamo" film will be disappointed.
	retiredwarrant.blogdrive.com /comments?id=18 (677 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - The Alamo
		The Alamo's Mexicans are bourgeois cartoons, and its fl characters are meek-minded servants who call postmodern attention to their own cowardliness.
		Whatever the superficial accuracy of these portrayals, it's not enough for a film to show its minority characters from such a pious, hang-our-heads-in-shame distance—racism can be as much an unintentionally passive act as an intentionally active one.
		Arising from the still-smoldering ashes of far-off Iraq in a period of marital sanctity, this candidate for worst film of the year is further, sobering proof that every dog(gerel) has its day and every generation gets the movie it deserves.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1049 (354 words)

	Review \| The Gates of the Alamo
		Promoting a work as "the first full-scale novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo" can't be expected to garner much attention outside of Texas, where that Spanish mission-cum-fortress was overrun by the Mexican army in 1836.
		Worse, what little we recall of the true episode may be polluted by memories of the overwrought heroics in John Wayne's 1960 film, The Alamo.
		With a practiced politician's ease, Crockett maintains order within the Alamo's leadership ranks and wanders every evening among its wounded combatants, as if they were his constituents, "shaking hands, telling jokes, handing out his last stray twists of tobacco," doing whatever he can to keep spirits up.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/gatesalamo.html (972 words)

	The Alamo Movie Site: Frequently Asked Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In a nutshell: The story of the Alamo is tale of supreme courage in which an outnumbered garrison fight to the death against an overwhelming force commanded by the Mexican dictator Santa Anna in 1836.
		The ultimate sacrifice made by the Alamo defenders, both Texian and Tejano, remind liberty-loving people everywhere that the price of freedom is not free (Thanks to William Chemerka for the explanation in less than 4-5 lines.
		The real Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, does not allow any commercial productions on the hallowed grounds, thus, the filmmakers decided to build their own set just outside Dripping Springs, Texas, a hilly area with lush green wilderness, streams, and open ground--apparently a location which is supposedly just like the actual Alamo location of 1836.
	www.thealamofilm.com /moviefaq.html (1202 words)

	The Alamo
		The Alamo is a sprawling and stirring retelling of the near-mythic showdown between Santa Anna’s overpowering force and the 200 defenders holed up in old San Antonio’s last stronghold, the Alamo.
		The beauty of the new film is that it brings the story back to earth and peels away more than a century of myth making, to show us the real, life-sized people behind the legends.
		The film shows that throughout history, land was almost never peacefully acquired, but usually gained at the expense of others.
	archives.umc.org /interior.asp?ptid=1&mid=4113 (898 words)

	The Alamo--U.S. History lesson plan (grades 9-12)--DiscoverySchool.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Alamo de Parras is a member-supported compendium of Alamo and Texas revolutionary information and exchange on the Internet for use by school children, historians, and anyone interested in the Alamo.
		The Daughters of the Republic of Texas have a wonderful chronology of the Alamo from the time it was built to the present.
		There is a wealth of information on the heroes of the Alamo, an interesting pictorial history of the Alamo and the fascinating story of the preservation of this historic site.
	school.discovery.com /lessonplans/programs/battleofthealamo (1601 words)

	Wanniski.com
		The new “Alamo” film, helmed by Texas-born director John Lee Hancock, attempts to set the record straight.
		The Alamo was built as a mission but became a fortification with more cannon than any fort west of the Mississippi.
		Some critics have complained that the film is “revisionist” (often a byword for “politically correct”), preferring to keep their heroes at arm’s length, inaccessible and superhuman.
	www.wanniski.com /PrintPage.asp?TextID=3480 (962 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Remember the real Alamo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Clayton says he found it to be "full of inaccuracies." He says Davy Crockett is portrayed as a "frightened wanderer" who wanted to escape "over the wall" in the dark of night during the historic battle, but felt paralyzed and trapped by his own underserved heroic reputation.
		Clayton says the film has Crockett captured, bound and executed on his knees after the battle was over, "even though the historical evidence shows that he was killed fighting, in the thick of combat, during the battle."
		Richard Bruce Winders, curator of the Alamo museum, said movie viewers who expect a close remake of the classic John Wayne film will be disappointed.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37939 (639 words)

	Amazon.com: The Alamo: DVD: Carlos Arruza,Frankie Avalon,Veda Ann Borg,Joseph Calleia,Linda Cristal,Ken Curtis,Bill ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Alamo is a sprawling, unabashedly patriotic epic of the sacrifice made by 187 men defending the Alamo from Santa Ana's bigger and better equipped army.
		I had previously taped this film from a classic film channel,finally bought the DVD, and when I saw the brillance of this transfer and heard it in the enhanced 5.1 Surround I was in movie heaven.
		Wayne's ALAMO is epic in size and running time, but it never feels bloated or over long to me. wayne plays davy crockett and makes him a man looking for some meaning to his life and the war for texas is where he thinks he will find it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004ZBVE?v=glance (2209 words)

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