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The Alamo
1960
The story of how a handful of Americans defended a ramshackle mission against a 7000 strong Mexican army. Read more
| Starring | Richard Widmark, John Wayne, Richard Boone, Frankie Avalon |
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| Director | John Wayne |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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The Alamo
The story of how a handful of Americans defended a ramshackle mission against a 7000 strong Mexican army.
| Starring | Richard Widmark, John Wayne, Richard Boone, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Chill Wills, Joseph Calleia, Laurence Harvey |
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| Director | John Wayne |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 34 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Wild Westerns |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English, German |
| Subtitles | Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 23 Aug 2004 Production year: 1960 |
| Format | DVD |
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John Wayne produced, directed and starred (as Colonel David Crockett) in this classic of the western genre. The rhetoric in the cause of freedom seems anachronistic in a film made in 1960, and the historical events concerning the siege of the eponymous fort have since been reassessed. However, this epic remains a great achievement with powerful performances, notably by Wayne and Richard Widmark, and a fine script from James Edward Grant that has moments of wit and humour between the more dramatic speeches. Wayne was helped by an uncredited input from his friend John Ford in the battle scenes.
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An elephantine, historically inaccurate, stridently patriotic tribute to the handful of Texans who faced assault by... read more on Time Out
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7 out of 11 people found this review helpful
classic acting
a classic of the seige of alamo as true to the facts as could be mr wayne made this one of his best
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
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Not really taken with it
For a lot of the way, Wayne's telling of the siege of the Alamo is going great guns - spectacular photography, well-staged action, a lush Dimitri Tiomkin score. Unfortunately, once Wayne the actor hoves into view as Davy Crockett, the speechifying kicks in and all that overt and highly worthy patriotism tends to stick in the throat. Still, there's enough action and spectacle here to make it worth a view.
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