Fun Bloopers! in John Wayne's "THE ALAMO" (1960) 

There are historical inaccuracies, yes, but it is still a great movie. I saw it when I was 11 years old. I had no idea what it meant to sacrifice yourself for a cause, for something bigger than yourself. This movie taught me that.

Some years back I visited San Antonio on business, & toured the Alamo, which is right in the center of town. I have heard some historians dispute the accuracy of the events portrayed in this film. But regardless, that place is still hallowed ground to the people of Texas.

At the time this movie was made it wasn’t considered great, but now it’s a great respected classic. John Wayne spent a lot of money on this production. He always wanted to make an Alamo movie.

I still like to watch this movie when it comes on TV. John Wayne is still one of the best actors there ever was! I remember watching one of his old movies and he was fist fighting next to a train. (HE WAS WEARING A SUIT.)

My favorite actor is the actor who didn’t jump onto the mattress, he jumped onto the roof and rolled down it, what a man.

Imagine watching this as a young kid, idolizing John Wayne, and not knowing anything about the Alamo or how it ended. This movie was traumatic!

I WAS 6 YEARS OLD WHEN SAW THIS MOVIE AT THE DRIVE IN THEATER . AND 24 YEARS OLD WHEN I VISITED THE ALAMO. AND PROUD TO BE A TEXAN.

I grew up on this stuff and still think it’s better then the crap today

many and i mean many moons ago, my graduating class toured the alamo at the end of air force basic at lackland; it was to inspire us. i think about it everytime i see the movie

No question THE DUKE .. There will never be another! He deserved more credit for this great great movie. Saw it at a drive in when I was 8 I believe with some cousins visiting Yinzburgh from Texas...what an event that was!

The best ALAMO film I ever seen, artists,music,every minute of the film wonderful

still makes me sad seeing John Wayne die after all these years. He was America ,back then he stood for good

)The Tennessean didn't disappear, shine kinda makes you fade away if you drink a lot. )That's no electrical cord on Bowie's gun...it's a pull cord in case the trigger malfunctions. )No mattresses for the stunt men; they were all relatives of The Humble...and everybody knows Bumbles bounce. )Chill Wills was-a getting old, and that's no half sword in his back... it's the post to put the key onto to wind him up when he got tuckered out. )The rocks had ferrite in them, and that was a magnetic reaction. )Col. Travis' hand moving was a post-mortem muscle spasm. --That about covers it. All can be explained! John Wayne movies don't have mistakes! I rest my case.

I'll take this movie with with the bloopers over most of todays movies produced to "perfection".

This may be a little funny to yall i have s of humor TOO but im TEXAN& this is a Sacred subject...a shrine here in Texas ..we love John Wayne here He did a wonderful movie but too sad fir me to see again once long ago.....fr the great state of Texas....💙🇺🇸

What a claim to fame " I was an extra in the Alamo, and John Wayne stood on my head"

Still a great movie and my alltime greatest favorite actor.

Towards the end of the battle, the Good Guys are running out of gun powder... yet the store room looks full of it when Duke blows it sky high.

I was 16 when this was released. An enjoyable movie.

It's a very great movie. I wish they would put the four hour director's cut on DVD.

John Wayne a man that loved his country R I P MR Wayne

A great movie and John Wayne is surely missed in Hollywood a great American

The 2 halves of the sword 😂absolutely brilliant.

The GREATEST Actor of all time !

It was a miracle Harvey's hand moving..bless him..

Ha ! THANKS so much for uploading ! I love bloopers and that was a LOT of fun to watch ! John Wayne's version is full of historical inaccuracies but yes, it's a very entertaining epic.

It is a great movie the era before video releases had a higher tolerance for small technical gaffes because the audience would only see it at regular speed and in limited numbers of viewings that coupled with the suspension of disbelief made these types of "bloopers " invisible to the average movie goer it makes for an interesting study as well as being fun

I went to the Alamo last September. A lot of history-challenged people have complained that it was too small and boring. Nuts! To those of us who're steeped in the story, it was a moving experience. Of all the events of the first half of the nineteenth century, that one was the most interesting and most inspiring. Thanks for posting the video. PS I got John Wayne's autograph in 1972. It has been laminated and in my wallet every day since June 1979..

The bloopers are fun, but that doesn't detract from a great movie! I still love it!

Great film. Loved all the characters. Well done John Wayne/marion

You can just about imagine saying "I just know I had the other half of that sword in my back pocket a second ago."

Didnt realy like the second half of the movie but the battle at the last 10 minutes just blew my mind with all of the extras and these colorful uniforms, it was like amazing af unforgatable

One thing that always caught my attention was when the guys are eating in the Alamo and one guy says something like, " Let me have some of those frijole beans" which is just like saying, " Let me have some of those beans, beans", since frijoles ARE beans.

The assault occurred between 4:00 and 5:00 am, at that time in March, it was pitch dark everywhere in San Antonio. Except for the rooms along the "long" barracks, there wasn't much fighting inside the Alamo; most of the defenders tried to flee, a group of 60-70 were killed by Mexican cavalry after they jumped over to palisade and tried to escape up the Gonzales road. Not very heroic, but that's history for you.

I saw this movie in 1960...at an outdoor theater at the US Navy base in Gitmo Bay, Cuba. 2nd grade...it was all an adventure!

long and long winded, but one of the best movies I have EVER seen

Bloopers make any movie great any movie! Comedy or drama any amount of good bloopers can give that movie a lift. No Oscar for bloopers YET! Some movie will get the first Oscar for bloopers.

One of my favorite movies. I will take it as it is...

These were all good catches. It is fun to see the bloopers.

The Duke was and always will be the best.

Least historically accurate, but still greatest Alamo movie ever made

John Wayne's blooper reel could win an Oscar all by itself.

AhHa..... Love The Duke!!!! Great times Great Movies, thanks for the fun of the little stuff you found, I got a kick out of it. 👍

still watch the movie at least twice a year .great movie

There was no bigger star than the Duke for decades.

Nobody today can compare yesteryears actors

One of the best all time movie's.

I wish the ending would have been like the Disney film I saw on tv as a kid, Davey C. is shown swinging his rifle back and forth at the Mexicans and then it just fades away, we don't see him die.

I believe most people who understand theater can forgive any number of these gaffs. Like the Starbucks cup on Game of Thrones. It’s still fun to catch them though. Wonderful movie! Thanks for posting!

Still a great movie

All films have mistakes in them. It's just finding them. But this is still a great film.

I like the final scene blowing up the MAGAzine!!!

Remember reading an eyewitness account of the battle of waterloo. The writer tells of a couple of things he saw, that if put in the subsequent movie, would look like bloopers. One poor guy, who got hit by a cannonball, started bouncing up and down, as if he were on a trampoline ( my description) . None of these bloopers in the alamo, would be noticeable to the usual viewer.

the best man and the best movie MY HERO X

yep, Mathew Hammersly Hi from NZ. (All can be explained! John Wayne movies don't have mistakes! ) So True mate,,,,,,,,,,,,,Gib

I hadn't noticed those before.Funny.But Duke Wayne's portrait of Davy Crockett is said to b the most authentic,so. I hear.May they all RIP.

WAYNE WAS THE DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, LEAD ROLE, SMOKED 3 PACKS OF CIGS A DAY DURING FILMING. IT TANKED AT THE BOX OFFICE. ALL THAT STRESS GAVE HIM CANCER. RIP DUKE.

‘It’s still a great movie” ....yup

- Hand moving...He was dying, and it's actually common to see appendages move on freshly dead corpses - Electrical Cord... If you look carefully, it's only a short piece of cord, doesn't run down to the ground. More likely a leather fringe. - I thought Crockett (Wayne) stepping on the dead body's head only added to the movie. That does happen in war.

I enjoyed the recoilless cannon.

It's a known fact that David Bowie would have survived the Alamo if he had a longer extension cord.

Love the MAGA sign by the door. Laughing!!!

This was great fun. Thank you.

I enjoyed that movie and the music was great.

The biggest mistake was having the battle take place in broad daylight. It happened in the darkness of early morning.

Somebody had too much time on their hands to find such small imperfections that no one would see if it wasn’t in slo mo and pointed out!

How the West was Won had 3 Directors, one was John Ford. The film was done in 3 parts, so I guess you're right there would have only been 1 director on the set at any time.

RE: A Great Movie Yes, and thanks for sharing. This movie, and those like it from those days, is miles above the junk turned out by Hollywood these days.

At the beginning of old Gun Smoke episodes from the 1950's I always laugh when Marshall Matt Dillon is walking through Boot Hill graveyard and the tombstones are blowing with the created wind from the wind machine.

The Alamo is one of those movies made @ wrong time for full recognition (Magnificent Seven, same time) Tiomkins score for example is brilliant and up there with Bernstein! Wayne must have wished he'd done it in 59! The critical response to it is ridiculous and baffling? The film would be right 'up the street' of any Grandparents or Great grandparents, as it shows what needs to happen in a battle situation! Irony, I've still to get it on Blu-ray!

Even with all it's bloopers, it is STILL a brilliant piece of celluloid. If this movie would have been made today, it would have taken 6 hours to view and about 50 organisations to review it, but don't forget, it wouldn't have been WOKE enough. haha

It's still tough to see the Duke go that way.

I saw this movie at a Drive-In when I was a kid

An epic movie for certain, but more importantly, an epic display of heroism.....Remember the Alamo!!!!

wonderful movie. i had the chance to attend the showing of the movie in the actual alamo movie set in bracketville. many of the local extras attended and spoke. it was great.

I thought I'd seen something that'd looked like a mattress when Denver Pyle "died." And Lawrence Harvey's hand moving after he "died" always got on my nerves. Like, damn it, Lawrence. You're dead. Don't be moving your hand

Agreed that these things are fun to find but I never noticed them watching the movie and back in the day before home video you could get away with a lot more

Do it mean what i think it do! It do

still a good movie...thanks for posting..

If youtube would add this movie, I would pay for it

The Duke spent a fortune of his own money on this HEROIC recreation. Yes even WE don't always win. But if WE loose WE do it as the HEROES AMERICAN'S have always been! The old movie site, not far from the real Alamo actually get's about as many visitors. I get teary eyed every time I watch all the brave famous & regular heroes bravely trying to cover each other's back, bravely fighting to the death. Even Jim booey's new freed slave sacrifices himself to protect a man he respected unto death when he could have left himself. America may never be perfict but we at least admit our mistakes & try to learn from the past. Problem is nowadays we've gone WAYYY to far!! Every "SNOWFAKE", (I meant it that way) , is offended by any less than super left liberal point of view. Basically don't keep breathing.

My favorite movie

Actually a pretty good movie. I think the problem was the editing, which is the unsung element of superior movies.

Beautiful spirit in this moviemaking. Today’s anti-heros being celebrated as they are is a work in line with destroying our desire for goodness. Thank you Mr. Wayne for years of quality moviemaking.

why yes! sharp observations :-)

John Wayne put his money, heart and soul into this film. IIRC, The Duke asked James Arness to play a part in this film. Arness did not take the offer, and John Wayne never forgave him for that. If you are old enough to remember, Wayne turned down the roll of Matt Dillon. To help out, Wayne did a nice job with the intro to the show when it was still young. Later on, Arness stared as Jim Bowie in the 1987 production with Brian Keith in the role as Crocket. Such is life in the big movie industry. 🤨😎

Remember The Alamo!!!

Love the duke the critics hated this movie at the time.

There is a scene where Crockett is talking to Flaca and he leaves the room and as the door is closing behind him it looks as if he falls down but keep your eye on crockett, its something that caught my attention yrs ago 😅

Thanks for the posting:-)

porfle poopernecker, Thank you for posting this video with bloopers. This is such a great movie and seeing these bloopers makes me appreciate better the product the movie is. I like the tumbleweed bricks/rocks in your video. Such a lot of work the whole movie is. I am watching it now, in London uk on channel 31 freeview. Cheers. h

I remember this...

I noticed the white uniform's of the Mexican soldiers are spiffy clean. So do is Colonel Bowie's (Laurence Harvey's) white shirt.

Still a great movie and fabulously expensive to make.

Nice clip but aren't bloopers when they mess up a line? These are called continuity errors or something.

Not bloopers; editing errors

I like it. fun stuff.

The real blooper is the inaccuracy of the storyline. On a par with Mel Gibson's Braveheart, btw that was the nickname of Robert the Bruce not Wallace.

A MYTHIC MOVIE !!!!!

My favorite #1 movie of all time