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View Poll Results: What is your favorite movie/feature about The Alamo?
The Immortal Alamo (1911 silent film) 0 0%
Davy Crockett (Fess Parker -- Disney film - 1955) 3 8.82%
The Alamo (John Wayne epic -- 1960) 18 52.94%
The Alamo (Ron Howard/John Lee Hancock -- 2004) 7 20.59%
The Alamo;13 Days to Glory (TV movie -- 1987) 3 8.82%
Other (please list) 3 8.82%
Voters: 34. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 09-30-2009, 04:26 PM
 
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Gotta vote for the Duke.

Besides I think I saw it around 1968 in a re-issue - my late cousin and I stayed in the Grand Theater in Paris, Texas and watched it over and over one Saturday. We probably paid 35 cents!
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Old 10-01-2009, 02:41 PM
 
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The Duke-y can't hold a candle to this next guy:

YouTube - Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - Alamo Tour
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Old 10-02-2009, 03:22 PM
 
Location: Warrior Country
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Since Brubraker started it........I'll veer from the list as well.


None on the list were better than Ustinov & Winters in "Viva Max".
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Old 10-02-2009, 10:41 PM
 
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You can watch the whole Public Domain thing on YouTube.
Thanks I'd never heard of it before.

YouTube - Viva Max part 3
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Old 10-03-2009, 09:59 AM
 
Location: Cedar Hill "The Chill", Texas
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I like that in the 2004 film they have Davy Crockett being captured. Disney amongst other revisionist always have him going down in a blaze of glory so the 2004 film is more accurate in that regard. I also like that they show how we came back to kick some ass at San Jacinto.
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Old 10-03-2009, 12:08 PM
 
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I like that in the 2004 film they have Davy Crockett being captured. Disney amongst other revisionist always have him going down in a blaze of glory so the 2004 film is more accurate in that regard. I also like that they show how we came back to kick some ass at San Jacinto.
Yeah, that scene in the 2004 version WAS a good "middle" as regards the controversy as to whether or not Crockett went down swinging "old Betsy"... or surrendered and was captured at the end. Then, in spite of a plea for mercy on his behalf by Gen. Castrillion, was overuled by Santa Anna and ordered to be killed. This latter account was largely based upon the diary of a Mexican officer named Pena, who supposedly witnessed the event. Here is a good link on the subject along with an excerpt:

The Straight Dope: Remembering the Alamo (and the death of Davy Crockett)

In short, we'll probably never know for sure how Crockett died. The real mystery, though, is why people think it matters. De la Peña never suggests the executed prisoners were cowards - on the contrary, he writes, "these unfortunates died without complaining and without humiliating themselves before their torturers."

Anyway, I was totally in awe with that scene at the end (of the 2004 movie) which has Crockett ordering Santa Anna to surrender his army to Houston if his excellency wanted their lives spared:


YouTube - The Alamo 2004- "Beg for your life"
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