"Originally to save on expenses, director John Wayne planned to shoot the film in Mexico. The Daughters of the Republic of Texas (the custodians of the real Alamo) sent him a letter that if he pursued that course of action, he had better not show the film in Texas. Consequently Wayne found an amenable landowner, Happy Shahan, who allowed the production to film on his 20,000-acre ranch in Bracketville, Texas. When Wayne asked to meet the builder, he was introduced to a Mexican immigrant. A rather dubious Wayne asked him, "Do you think you can build the Alamo?" to which the Mexican replied, "Do you think you can make a picture, Mr. Wayne?"' -- IMBD oh, the irony is just too much!!!
I don't remember it well, but it still has the usual Hollywood stereotypes of the time. Also, in reading Mexican history, the Mexican soldiers didn't have such nice uniforrms.
Santa Anna destroyed the Mexican Constitution, and he murdered Mexicans at Zacatecas who didn't give up their guns. He didn't care about the welfare of his soldiers and or people. No Congress and or Senate. Just him the tyrant to rule. The Mexican people are awesome; however, Santa Anna is an autrocious human being.
@@kylekullin2520 Mexico had the very unfortunate fact of being saddled (no pun) with a bad leader, he had pretentions of grandeur. That did not help their cause.
Glory to the brave 19th century Mexican soldiers, who defended the territorial integrity of Mexico from the American pirates, who were balkanizing the Mexican province of Texas. Yes, because they were illegal immigrants who rose up against the Mexican Republic, Texas did not have the right to separate from Mexico, but the American pirates wanted to continue maintaining slavery, abolished in Mexico since 1810. Mexico land of racial equality.
My 3X Great Uncle, John Henry Dillard from Tennessee was an Alamo Defender. He had come down from Tenn. in 1835 the year before. He was at the palisade with Crockett at the beginning of the final battle on March 6th. God only knows where they fell. I have heard that Crockett fell near the front of the mission doors. Maybe my uncle was not too far away when he met his glorious end.
Knowing that all the texans were killed and they holded for 13 days versing an army 5 times the number of theirs makes me think about the fact the alamo were true heroes
As a Texan from San Antonio, whenever we went home on leave, I would take my wife and kids to visit the Alamo. I visited the movie set as a young boy as my Father knew Happy Shahan. Before the set was closed I took my wife and all five of our kids to visit the set outside of Brackettville, TX. I felt it was important that they have an appreciation of just how difficult it was for the Texicans to defend the Alamo mission with only 187 men against about 5,000 Mexican soldiers under Santa Anna! AND just how much we owe those brave men!
This song is a great tribute to all the defenders that died at the Alamo,they were ordinary men with all the flaws of men but they died as heroes and nobody can ever take that away from them.
@andrew chambers coming across this Alamo clip of 1960 - the Alamo } glazing over comments. yours, just had to reply. so, you say. uumm. interesting. you must not know your history as to the war between The states & Mexico. you point fingers towards the left. there's two sides to a any war throughout the globe. who was in the right & who was in the wrong. in the Alamo case. it was those white American invaders that were in the wrong. they Squattle into upper mexico claiming land that was there's in the first place. santa anna fault was allowing those white invaders to settle in that area of land. which those white invaders took to the ideal of creating another state for the union. it's not independence from Mexico. it's actually stealing land. santa anna did what was needed. killing off those white American invaders. along those mexicano traitors. like I quoted, there's two sides to any war. to most of us mexicano Americans, these upper parts of Mexico. we still see it as part of mexico. most of us Mexicano Americans our family roots goes back to the spanish conquest of the west, way before it became part of the union. meaning our mexicano ancestors came with those Espanlo conquistadoras that conquered the west. just as the spanish catholic mission { known as the Alamo } was settled by the Espanlos along us Mexicanos. as to us Mexicano Americans we came with that treaty between the states & mexico. since we already here in upper Mexico. do take note. as long as that treaty stands between both countries, no wall will never be built, if the united states breach's that treaty. Mexico under the terms of the treaty. all upper lands of Mexico falls right back to Mexico. like I quoted there's two sides to a coin. { any war } quote what you will. it was right that those white American invaders to be killed off. they were not hero's but. squatters. leave the left ought of it.
@andrew chambers as to ur reply comment. to you they did, but, in truth, they didn't die as hero's. common sense tell's that for a fact. how you fingure they give my life a cause right or wrong. makes no sense quoting that to me. like I quoted. it was right for Santa Anna to act on persevering land that belong to Mexico, the one thing I do have to make clear, Santa Anna wasn't no Tyrant nor a dictator. it's you whites of today that believes that horse bull. will admit. when it comes to any movie base on the Alamo. just to Imagine that very day seeing those invaders meeting their squattering end. as to jim bowine . just to imagine those bayonets piercing into bowie. the one thing. I don't have no remorse for none of those in the Alamo. it was right that they should die for believing taking land that wasn't their's in the first place. in truth>> most of us Mexicano Americans don't have no remorse for those white Americans in the Alamo. to us Santa Anna is the hero persevering upper Mexico. like I quoted. we Mexicano Americans still see this part of the united states as upper Mexico. if you didn't know. the united states still owns money too Mexico for upper Mexico. the bill of sell, rest's in that treaty between both countries. like I quoted as a common fact. as long as that treaty stands between both countries. no wall will never be built. in truth. mexico & the states did actually have a secret meeting. some way months ago. the united states was reminded as to that treaty. that's why trump didn't get his money, just remember. there's two side to any war. yours is based on the white man version of the Alamo. while ours is based on truth what took place as to those squatters in the Alamo. will that's that. remember to us Mexicanos those squatters didn't die as hero's, they were killed for taking land that wasn't their's in the first place. there's no point of debating the truth as to the Alamo.
Movies are not made to tell the truth of how things happened movies are made for entertainment only. The only truth about the alamo is they had a chance to leave and for whatever reasons they believed they were willing to die for it. Many people find this version of john waynes movie inspiring so let people be inspired maybe some good will come out of it. I live in san antonio and i get choked up whenever i walk by the alamo or go to san fernando church where they have their ashes.
All art, including good popular culture, should be an effort by the creator to depict the world through their own lens. This was the Alamo through Wayne's own lens and it's, at times, such as this scene, very well done, although a bit corny, art, combining photography, script, sets, acting, costume and music (although I doubt very few war refugees who just survived a battle looked like good Joan O'Brien here).
That little segment at 1:46 for me is the most moving piece of secular music I can even think of. Every time I hear it (and I mean playing it over five or six times), I cry for this country.
John Wayne wore himself out, serving as Producer, Director, and Star. A feat only ever duplicated successfully by Orson Welles in "Citizen Kane". So, when filming was a wrap, Wayne took a month's vacation. While the Marketing of the film was entrusted into the hands of another man. OOOPS! What a botch job he did. Sadly, this film did poorly at the box office. And at the Oscars. Yet, withall, it truly stands as THE Greatest American EPIC film. Virtually an all star cast. Every film-making aspect is top notch quality. "I hate to say anything good about that long winded jackanapes. But he sure does know the short way to start a war." -- Richard Widmark, as Jim Bowie.
Si tambien deberian pasar ecenas cuando el ejercito de taylor desembarca en veracruz y bombardea la ciudad sin misericordia matando a la poblacion civil entre niños y mujeres..
@@daniellastuart3145 For all the hype about being oppressed or whatever, the Texas settlers had signed a contract with the Mexican Government. They, in effect, were traitors and traitors ARE more often than not, executed. Surely, Wayne wouldn't stand for "traitors" to the USA now, would he???
Asi le llaman uds Liberar texas ??? Los mexicanos tenemos otro consepto . Porgue no hacen peliculas de como le robaron medio territorio a mexico?? Y asi todabia nos odian y discriminan.....
We were at the Alamo on a bus tour in 1998. Marty Robbins has the definitive song of the Alamo for my musical taste. We loved San Antonio, and so many of the other places we were taken to in the American South West. Barry from Canada..
As a film its a great film, ok, so maybe its not so accurate in the detail of how each person died, and when/what time the attack took place etc. But one fact is true, that however they actually died, even if they were trying to escape, knowing that death was imminent, they still died defending the Alamo, and that's all you really need to know! Now what they were doing there, whether they had a right to be there, and what they were really trying to do, well that information you can find in books. But to see , an even less historical epic film, such as the 1960's version of the Alamo, gives you Goosebumps on what it must have been like as a the defender, to face such overwhelming odds!
I remember when this movie first came out ! As a child the interest came out as it was with Disneys " Davey Crockett " TV series came out, Toy Alamo Play sets etc., and sound track is excellent ! GO ARMY
I had one of those Alamo play sets and I am seventy one, reading what you. Said you had one,made me think about me and my childhood friends playing With our Alamo set . The year was 1960 I love Texas love till I die!!! Fro river, love it the hill country love. It
I bought the Alamo Playset and a couple of Alamo Soldier bags for my son. He, actually used them a few unusual ways. He used Blue Timmee modern soldiers as Time Travelerß to 'Save the Alamo' for one, But his main style of play was a modified 'Major Dundee' scenario where Union, Confederate, and Cowboys fought a combined Mexican and Native American army trying to invade America on orders from Maximilian to retake land while America was involved in the Civil War. Both sides had Cannon, but the Union had a surprise, 5 Gatling Guns!
La fin du film est très émouvante et très touchante Les mexicains rendent hommage aux survivants La femme du lieutenant Anderson tué bien sûr hélas Une enfant (Allyson Wayne fille de John ) un petit serviteur noir Et le jeune homme courrier du colonel Travis Les larmes coules, malgré nous En tous cas pour les âmes sensibles
Mrs. Dickinson was given the donkey to ride because she couldn't walk. She'd caught a musket ball in her leg. She had a very hard life after the Alamo. I had moved to Texas when my father was stationed there in the Navy. In 1961, we went to San Antonio where I saw the Alamo church as it then was. There's been a lot of rebuilding since. The soundtrack still brings me close to tears 60 years on.
Indeed, the real Mrs. Dickinson wound up being remarried several times, often to abusive husbands that left her in poverty, resulting in her having to live, for a time, as a prostitute in a Galveston brothel. She attempted to live off of the income from telling her "Alamo story" to various newspapers and magazines (including a very early edition of Harper's Bazaar) of the time. Unfortunately, her "story" fluctuated wildly over time, losing much of its' historical value, in an attempt to give everybody "something new" and wring additional money out of the increasingly jaded media. She eventually died in destitution, after living a rather hardscrabble life after the Alamo!
I’ve always liked that scene of bringing the troops to attention/present arms as they walk out. Then the way she hesitates for a second when they stand up like she’s thinking “oh crap”.
@@NostalgicGamerRickOShay absolutely. What do you think "the South" was all about??? What do you think plauges some countries in Africa and Asia that can't unify--where the people see themselves more as pertaining to a particular region within a country, than to the country as a whole??? We see that now in Afghansitan. Read some history.
@@smotnick I DO read history. History has shown that unification is not necessarily a good thing; indeed, it can rather oppressive. There is a reason why China has not one, but two, maybe even three, territorial disputes; think, Tibet.
Santa Anna ordered no quarter for the defenders of the Alamo, he hoisted the red flag from the bell tower of a nearby church, clearly visible to those in the Alamo. No quarter means no prisoners, all were to be killed. No one would have been allowed to surrender, and all wounded combatants would have been killed. Also Susannah Dickinson when interviewed stated that she saw Crocket's body near the armory along with others. I would rather rely on eyewitness testimony, written near the time of the event, than revisionist historian speculation. And I know people will cite the recently "discovered" Mexican officer's writings on the matter, but their provenance is questionable, at best.
🤔As An old Native Texan Ive always loved the movie and going to the Alamo in San Antonio. A strange irony is the Show was made in the early 1960's and Texas won 3 National Champ Football title's in the 60's. There was much Statewide emotional patriotism back then surrounding that movie. Not so much now in Texas since everyone comes here from another state or country. Well, Just an observation. PS....HOOK EM HORNS! 😁👍🇺🇲
The motto of the 36th Texas Infantry. 'Remember the Alamo'. Important here and now in California as Mexicans are now a dominant minority group. We took California away from Mexico in 1846 and now they want it back.
@@oscarwildeghost the only way the libtards could get elected. With the left's gibberish those folks are getting something for nothing. That's their target. Mexicans are now the largest group in CA. And largest invested group in drugs and illegal activities. God bless POTUS for demanding that wall.
@@anthonyagnone5440 last I checked, grinos were the # 1 CUSTOMERS of the Mexican cartels. LOL But I didn't expect much intelligence from a Drumpf lemming.
@@binkyxz3 yes, vanity. It was a bloated crap of a movie, historically inaccurate and even preposterous at times. Watch Duke knock over a horse, rider and all!!! Yeah, if he put up his house to help finish paying for it, like Coppola would do nearly 20 years later, it is vanity.
To the people of Texas, please keep this song in mind for eternity. Liberals/leftists communist thugs want to ruin our lives. Please ensure Texas is free as a result of these brave souls that defended the Alamo and gave their lives for this. This is a Tejano latino here to say this; I have tears in my eyes and hate to see this wonderful state go down like whats happening in California. This ballad brings tears to my eyes.
The battle in not over it has just begun! !!! We the people will defeat liberals and comm.!! We love to free and i will fight to save that freedom! !! America has it's bad mistakes but will become a better country! !! We will be free!!!!!!
Let the old people tell the story let the legend grow from the thirteen days of glory from the Alamo Fort! Proudley raise the flag while Texas eyes cry May the Fort that was Mission be eternal shrine. They fought for our freedom that's all we need to know; about the thirteen days of glory of the Alamo Fort! The bugles are now silent, ther is rust on each sword, and that group of heroes lie asleep in the arms of the Lord!
Truth be told, the Spanish culture (Either Spain or Central America) including the French & Italians, they have a tradition similar to the Romans which is, "honora unitates hostium cum timebunt te"
@bluewolvesstudio2822 "honora unitates hostium cum timebunt te", more or less is "honor the units of the enemy when they fear you". OK, man, and what's the meaning of that?
The Alamo defenders must have known that they faced certain death, so outnumbered by the vast army of Santa Anna, the self styled "Napoleon of the West."
So much history on those hallowed grounds in San Antonio. THERES rumored to be at least 1000 indians burried around the Alamo. Ghosts Everywhere at night. Books have been written about the Alamo ghosts. The Night watchmen there are full of ghost stories about the place, too.😁🤠🇺🇲
It is that it has a lot of fiction, the African slaves that the Americans had inside the Alamo were missing, the Mexican army was irregular, and the heroes of the Alamo, when they saw what they lost, fled like Sam Houston did it all the war trying to attract Santa Anna to cross the border with the USA and create a war justification
@@emmanuelake421 In the eyes of Mexican law, they were IN FACT traitors, because they swore an oath of allegiance and signed contracts for land in many cases. Their backwater lawlessness compelled the Texan settlers to rebel. Gen. Santa Anna may have been a dictator with unrealistic political ambitions, BUT he didn't even have a strong grip on the whole country, as Mexican historian Jose Valades points out, especially in Texas which was so far away from the capitol.
@@gokugamer8909 where did I say "anarchy"??? Besides, what you say is false. The Texas settlers got into a conflict because slavery was outlawed in Mexico while they wanted to bring them along.
unfortunately this movies glossed the actual battle no quarter was given on both sides but the defenders were butchered and burned in a pyre and the ashes scattered it was an act of infamy that led to Santa Anna defeat
185 against 3,000 for thirteen days they repelled Santa Ana the last night I know these brave men made their peace with God commuted their souls and prayers to him and prepared to die for what they believed in may they and the ones at holiday never be forgotten
BS it was 1500 Mexicans vs 250 Texicanṣ And the real siege was about 1 houṛ. Most of the Texans died running to escape, They were caught completely by surprised while they were sleeping. Most died in the long barracks some got out and were run down by Mexican cavalry
@@henrydicarlo8472 you have your history wrong they didn’t run they died like men should who believed in freedom and the right to live as they please it was a thirteen day siege 185 holding off 3.000 Mexicans it only took hour for Mexicans to overrun mission but it cost them dearly texican didn’t run the only running that was done was when fanning men tried to escape from the ambush set up for them under a truce flag and the Mexicans who were caught off guard at San jacinto including Santa Anna who dressed as a peon soldier to escape he was caught by a lower ranking Texican and brought back to sam Houston where his own men betrayed him by calling elliot presidente
@@grannydyess You read the history and not some books that were Texas Propaganda written 100 years ago . I am going by the latest research which also entils records from the Mexican Army. You gave yourself away aas a stupid hillbilly when you brought up that they were thinking about God when they were sleepng and running for their lives when the Mexicans broke in the North Wall and the south west cannonade that was left abandoned by the Texicanṣ and pored in the hovel and bayoneted most of them because most of the battle was fought in the dark and no one could see to shoot or reload their rifles
@@grannydyess You're full of shit Mexican diaries and records have shown most ran away to the long barracks and out the cattle pens on the east side of the missioṇ. What freedom the freedom to own slaves? Their were only 1500 Mexicans at the siege and there were 252 bodies counted by the Mexicans by one count and 257 dead by anotheṛ counṭ It didn't cost them dearly if it did the Mexicans couldn't have continued the offense. Best estimates of Mexican casualties was 70 dead and 150 wounded half of which died because of poor medicine in the Mexican Army. And most of the wounded were wounded by their own soldiers because of the poor lighting in the missioṇ It was so dark in the mission when the assault started no one could tell who the enemy waṣ How is a half awake Anglo militia man or Mexican going to re load in the dark. Have you ever been to San Antonio on a March night at 5 in the morning? It doesn't get light until about 6: 10 AṂ How were they going to see? The Mexicans had a better advantage because the Mexicans had bayonets and just stabbed the defenders as they tried to escape. Get real, those untrained undisciplined WASPS weren't going to give anyone a fight - they probably didn't even know how to march in step. Keep your hillbilly nonsense and cram iṭ Even with all of our modern equipment its difficult to fight in the dark and it was 100 times worse 174 yearṣ ago Most of those guys were farmers with no military experience. If they were lucky they got off one shot and raṇ.
crockett and bowie were scots and a few others . travis was english. most of the defenders of the mission at alamo were brits or british decendants. us brits may have kings and queens but they do not rule us . hey are head of country nominally only. we rule our country, and their majesties follow the government which the common people elect. the U.S.A is a brilliant idea . but as recent years have proven. a president can obtain near dictatorial powers especially if his political party feels it is the only way to maintain power. this cannot happen in britain as the political party that is in power can remove a sitting prime minister.
@Jack The Film Fanatic My mistake, but the power of the monarchy devolved over decades, not overnight. "By the beginning of the 20th Century, power had passed almost entirely to Parliament. However, Parliament and the Government exercise their powers under ‘Royal Prerogative’: on behalf of the Monarch and through powers still formally possessed by the Monarch." politics.co.uk
To me imo the best rendition of this song ,if anyone knows the name of this Orchestra. I remember it seemed a funny name to me and it must be in the closing credits of the movie.
Nope. They were crushing the last remnants of a Mexico-wide rebellion against Santa Ana, after he had seized power and displaced the legitimate Mexican government.
The truth why the Mexican 🇲🇽 province of Texas was balkanized by US-American immigrants, was because the Mexican central government of General Santa Anna declared slavery illegal in Texas. (Santa Anna abhorred slavery, also the father of the country of Mexico, had abolished slavery since 1810). In addition, the Mexican law ordered to punish all those pioneers who did not free their slaves. This did not sit well with the US-American immigrants who wanted to keep slavery legal in Texas. That's why the Texas Civil War started. The Mexican soldiers who defended the territorial integrity of Mexico in the battle of the Alamo are actually the good guys in a story manipulated by official historiography. GLORY TO MEXICAN 🇲🇽 TEXAS
What a way to end a movie, Two great lines (everything else is visual). "Where's Daddie, Mommie? followed several moments later by "Attention" in Spainish. You see the John Ford influence here, do not do something verbally, when you can do it visually.
A Classic monumental movie that is a bit historically inaccurate because the actual final battle took place at 4:35 am on March 6,1836. All were put to the sword as a warning not to rebel against Mexico.
when I was teen, only movies at TV to distract ourself in my family ... I remember that only two movies made me almost with tears : " doctor jivago " and " alamo " .