After years of wanting this is the year I will finally visit The Alamo thanks to the retirement gift from my daughter and husband. I have the Alamo toy set I received as an 8 year old boy in 1960-1 still in a box. I have numerous books and films about The Alamo and the making of the movie.
The movie is great storytelling and very entertaining. Historically accurate--not quite. But one of my favorite because the script is pretty solid-the score is amazing, the acting-good-a lot of extras and good battle scenes. I do like the fact that the Mexicans are not portrayed as evil mustache twirling bad guys
I was 8 years old when I watched this dramatic and heart rending movie in the theater with my parents, and it has affected me all my life. I had the actual album for 60 years, but it finally bit the dust. I so enjoyed listening to it here! Thank you so very much Soundtrack Fred! Oh, I'm 71 now and still an Alamo fan.
I read where Mr. Wayne always insisted on a top-ranked music composer, like Dimitri Tiomkin, who also wrote the score to The High and the Mighty. He got Max Steiner for The Searchers.
@@yaffayafo82 I believe you are correct. And when "The Alamo" was made there were quite of few film-score composers of equal stature with Dmitri Tiomkin (Miklos Rozsa, Hans Zimmer, Elmer Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein, James Horner, etc.). It was a great age of film composers!
@@williampaulbeaugruendler7901 Ennio Morricone is without contest the greatest, though he did not like Westerns. Do not take me wrong ! Tiomkin´s had an amazing talent. But Il Maestro towers over all, very few can come to his stature in general, not even specifically for Westerns.
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I'm in my mid sixties and remember the first time the Alamo was on tv, it was in black and white I was so excited ( big John Wayne fan) the critics didn't really like it. I loved it, pure john Wayne, loved the USA, to me the film and the absolutely gorgeous haunting music was spell binding.I still get a tear in my eyes even to this day. When my two daughters and my grandkids are with me watching it I always hold a pillow up to hide the tears. What's up grandad they say, it's OK kids I've just got something in my eye.like my kids they know. Bless um!!!!!!!!!!
I hope that one day your grandkids look back and remember the times watching this with you. I always remember my grandma showing me this when I was young and have find memories of it.
The glorious history of the Alamo was written in the blood of the 186 (+or-) who died defending the Alamo and Texas! As a native of San Antonio, I've visited the Alamo many times and visited John Wayne's movie set in Brackettville twice. I also took our kids to see it before it was closed so they could appreciate the amount of space 186 men had to defend. Long live Texas; Long may the heroes of the Alamo be honored! The Alamo fell 6 March, 1836. My uncle was killed on Luzon in the Philippines on the same date in 1945. Two very good reasons for me to honor that date!
Talk about a fitting composition. A Russian immigrant, coming to the states and creating a few, but well-played to their intended audiences. One can tell its a Russian work. Grey, almost flat, but SOLID, like granite. And it endures and wears well, like a good Russian should. It fits this movie very well indeed.
This picture was a lousy testimony to the 13 major errors John Wayne did in producing the film, Why 13 ,one error for each of the 13 days of the siege. The 2004 version ,directed by John Lee Hancock was closer to the actual events.
@@Changehappens1 Yep because 2004 was a lot more accurate .Wayne couldn't even get the way Crockett died ,which was not blowing up the powder magazine, And even Walt Disney got it right with Bowie being in bed with 2 pistols and not some gatling gun style rifle.Want more?
@@skpknight8115 I get the accuracy. My point is that you are comparing 1960s cinema vs a 2004 film based on more accuracy. Totally different times and audiences.
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Tiomkin won an for Wayne's High and Mighty and thanked the great European Composers. He was also a favorite Score Composer of Frank Capra and Howard Hawks.
Let the old men tell the story Let the legend grow and grow Of the 13 days of glory At the siege of Alamo Lift the tattered banners proudly While the eyes of Texas shine Let the fort that was a mission Be an everlasting shrine Once they fought to give us freedom That is all we need to know Of the 13 days of glory At the siege of Alamo
Dimitri Tiomkin an immigrant from Russia raised film music to the heights of a fine art. His compositions particularly for Westerns were memorable. The Alamo theme shows his genius in converting a classic folk tune of Ireland into an anthem for the heroes of the Alamo.
In school when this movie came out and the whole class went to see it. I cried so much. I still cry when I hear the soundtrack. Loved that John Wayne was Dave’s Crocket my cousin on my fathers mother side.
Saw this at the Odeon Cinema in Aylesbury in '60 with my Dad. A short while later he became ill & died prematurely. A terrific movie but for me a difficult watch.
Respectfully .This was Not a fiasco film. John Wayne had some heart breaking disappointments from certain cast members and so called friends, he trusted. But as he quoted Davy Crockett. Go on, and do the best you can, and Ill do the same. Don't worry about me, I am with my friends. And he did the best he could.
This story and movie was always dear to me. I don’t know what this disappointments were but I know that the release,was,a,victim of bad timing and did not do that well at the box office.... I know the soundtrack well and some of the pieces are a little different here somehow. The “13 days of glory” choral is much different. The two speeches of Davy Crockett are omitted, one on “Republic”. The Green Leaves of Summer and The Ballad of the Alamo are not included but were not in the movie though. ....I wrote my Ninth grade English paper on The Fight for Texas and the Alamo which earned praise from the teacher who read sections of it aloud he thought it so good. I carried the Texas fighting spirt with me through the dark days in Vietnam.
You may be correct about the disappointments ,but Wayne ,as director and producer had an obligation to get as much of the story as historically correct as possible ,and he didn't do it. I know of at least three major errors in this film ,and those were directly related to the deaths of the main characters.
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I AM old enough to have seen this awsome movie in the movie theater in 70 mm panavision in Canada 🍁 the road version 242 min awsome wonderfull movie My favorite
Davy Crockett was from my county in east Tennessee. He as so many of the people here sought their future in Texas. Sam Houston was from a county less from thirty miles from me. Texas is so Tennessee. At the end of the war between the states it was not unusual to find and abandoned farm with a note on the cabin door stating "gone to Texas" My family has been in east Tennessee since the 1700's, but I now have grandchildren who are now Texans.We come full circle.
Well, since the Mexican government had prohibited immigration into Texas in 1830, all those folks who moved there afterwards were illegal aliens. Yes, we have moved a full circle.
To tell the truth, Davy was originally from North Carolina, who led his neighbours and relatives to East Tennessee in search of fertile land for farming and to get away from the clutches of the British Govt and their unfair colonial taxes.
Tennesseans and Texans... Americans all. No matter what the differences are, when push comes to shove, we are one. Through the centuries, many gave their all for what we have today. The full circle is strong.
You may be thinking of Daniel Boone, who was born in Pennsylvania, but lived in NC for a time before pioneering to Kentucky. Crockett wasn't born until 1786, after the Revolution, so don't see how he would have faced British Gov. taxes. I believe he was born in what is now E. Tennessee, in the now-defunct state of Franklin. Of course both had adventurous lives and became the stuff of legends.
My dad's family hails from Tennessee, my mom's from Texas. My Texas born little sister, 4x Miss Texas finalist, official Yellow Rose of Texas, went to uni in Nashville, and lived there for 10 years, active in the country music scene. She's married and back in Texas now. True, Texas and Tennessee are close kin.
God bless the Alamo, God bless John Wayne and God bless all who helped Wayne's dream come true. Some critics lambaste Wayne because the film isn't a totally accurate retelling of the story, but they who criticize should be able to say they've done as much. It's a wonderful piece of cinema.
I remember this film opening in Houston when I was a boy. It was a BIG deal and I have never forgotten the movie or the music. Filmed in Brackettville, TX.
Well Technically he was 34 years old at the outbreak of WWII. 34 1/2 actually........... I am not sure I would have wanted anyone that age beside me when I served in Vietnam.......... Had he been drafted in WW II, by the time he finished training and deployed he would have been at least 36...................... so why don't you really tell us why you didn't like him?
Well, technically, the average age for a WW2 soldier was 26 years old, and MANY were younger and older than that. Wayne himself stated that movie making was for sissies, but he confessed that he like the money, so he never served his country.
I hear this and i think : 185 against 5000 . what makes a man stay when he knows its impossible? God it must be who instills courage and unshakable bravery in a man. Thank you Duke for all you have done for America.
My mother took me to see this as a child. I'd never seen a movie with battle scenes like this before. The Music: "The Green Leaves of Summer" - yeah, I also like the Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen version too. But the Spanish style arrangements are the most incredibly haunting in my mind (I have Spanish family and hear this sort of stuff in street festivals etc regularly). There is a similar feeling about another movie scene (Rio Bravo I believe) - it lifts the hairs on your neck. Ok, inaccurate history? yes, dated? yes, Wayne's finest performance? - no (The Searchers for me on that one), but a simply wonderful childhood memory - YES!! Wayne, Widmark, and a sadly short lived (aged 45) Lawrence Harvey as William B. Travis.
@@patdoyle3686 Wayne received one of his 2 Best Actor Oscar nominations for Sands Of Iwo Jima. The Searchers is regarded as one of, if not the best western ever made. Red River was a tour de force, with an outstanding supporting cast. We all have our favorites, but I don't regard Stagecoach as anything more than John Wayne's second big break, his first being The Big Trail in 1930, which was basically a dud and caused Wayne to toil in B movies for almost the next 10 years. The supporting cast helped carry Stagecoach. Rio Bravo is one of my favorite movies, everything in it works. Was remade twice, as Rio Lobo and El Dorado. The Quiet Man was entertaining, with all of John Ford's stock players providing supporting roles. Victor McLaglen was one of my favorite actors. A boxer in his early years, he was named heavyweight champion of the British Army in 1918. In reality, he could have most likely wiped the floor with Wayne. Wayne would have been more highly regarded if he had actually served in the Armed Forces instead of playing military roles in the movies.
I think the film has become a classic just like the man who shot liberty valance when first came out was passed by but has become a cult classic along with the seachers funny how time changes how films are judged.
Yes it does all of John Ford John Wayne westerns are classics and I never saw the seachers look better than on bluray too bad Mr. Ford and Wayne aren't with us to see how good it looks.
Visite El ALAMO EN JULIO DE 1968 TENIA 21 AÑOS,PELICULA PROHIBIDA EN MEXICO NUNCA SE EXIBIO,ADQUIRI EL LONG PLAY DE CASUALIDAD EN SAN. ANTONIO TEXAS EN 1968. BUENA MUSICA.
After repulsing the first attack by Santa Ana's troops this exchange has stuck with me................ Tennessean: "We sure killed many brave men today." Thimblerig(Denver Pyle): "Funny, I was proud of 'em. Even while I was killing 'em, I was proud of 'em. It speaks well for men that so many ain't afraid to die when they think right is on their side. It speaks well."
Little know fact was that the little girl at the end of the film riding out on the donkey from the Alamo with her mother was John Wayne's daughter. Lisa was her name in the film.
Exactly right! She is his daughter Aissa, his first child from his last marriage. He loved having his children in his films, and he was a magnificent and dedicated father to all of them. A man like him was, and still is, very rare.
YOU COULD NOT MAKE A MOVIE LIKE THIS TODAY; IT WOULD HAVE TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT TO THE POINT OF ABSURDITY. ALSO BLM, ANTIVA, NANCY PELOSI AND JOE BIDEN WOULD BOYCOTT THE FILM FOR BEING TOO AMERICAN. ENOUGH SAID.
I wonder if anyone saw The Alamo in Todd AO? I have a curved TV and seeing it this way is nothing short of FANTASTIC. The only thing that could be better would be to see the whole restored film (including the Parson's funeral) and to have seen it on a giant Todd AO screen. I know it's not an accurate telling of the battle of the Alamo but it sure does touch my heart every time I see it.
We had a BIG screen theater called the Cine Capri , I saw John Wayne's Alamo movie there and let me tell you , IT WAS A FRACKING AWESOME MOVIE GOING EXPERIENCE ! The Cine Capri is no more but we still have our memories of that place ! Amen !
Talk about a holy s### moment, that hugeass Mexican army lined up against 130 guys in a crumbling building. The movie takes issue with popinjay Santana, not the Mexican people.
One does not have to be a Texan to admire the valour of people fighting for their liberty and against discrimination by an overbearing administration of a distinct ethnic majority community and fighting a battle whose end was a foregone conclusion to both sides ab initio. It is a pity that in the anti-Vietnam protests of idealistic American youth, the idealism of the frontiersmen of the Alamo who laid down their lives was forgotten with consequent box office disaster for John Wayne's Alamo. Dimitri Tiomkin's epic composition of the Alamo theme based on the old Green Sleeves folk tune captures the heroism of the battle in a way that the more recent film on the same legend though possibly more realistic fails to do justice. As a freedom-lover, I from India would join the Texans in saying, "Remember the Alamo".
The Alamo was not about fighting for our freedom or anything near it. It was about STEALING A HUGE PIECE OF MEXICO! What the hell are you people talking about? Do you know nothing about REAL history? Appalling ignorance.
@@crimsonwolf9099 If you call the simple English speaking settlers fighting the Mexican army for their freedom as stealing a piece of Mexico, one could say the same about the Spaniards taking the land of the Indians of Mexico and large part of the American Southwest including Texas. Compared to American invasion and takeover of California by Fremont, the fight for the Alamo was indeed a fight for freedom from oppressive Spanish rule. As for the leaders like Houston and Austin fighting the Mexican army, one can say that they were slave owners who came to Texas to carve out their own empires but as for the brave leaders of the Alamo battle, Davy Crocket, Jim Bowie and Bill Travis, one can only bow in admiration at their fight unto death despite their knowledge about their own certain death at the hands of Santa Anna.
@@johnkelinske1449 No, your actually wrong as we had troops and advisors in Vietnam in the 50s even as JFK was in office. We hadn't committed to full scale war and the Vietnam War was about 20 years old. The war ended in 1975.
They say in the last song that "They fought for freedom and thats all we need to know", but us nerds prefer to figure out what happened in the battle, even if it does'nt mean anything nowadys.
Grand film historique de john WAYNE. Alamo.avec la musique et la chanson qui l' accompagne. Film de 1960 . Avec le grand john WAYNE. Richard witmark. laurence harvey. Richard boon. Linda cristal. Frankie Avalon. 👍
Sir Dimitri Tiomkin,,You gave me WINGS TO FLY,,,like an EAGLE,,from the CASBAH of ALGIERS,crossing the Mediterranean Sea,,,to Norway,walking through Europe,flying,,to North America,,,and Nobody can stop me,,,only DEATH,,100000000 thanks,,Greatest Movie,,I love it so much..Merci,Gracias,,Grazzie,,Chokran,,Dassiva,,tak,,THANK YOU.
I miss the Duke I grew up with his movies he was a true Patriot and a love of the US of A like another I know President Trump who signed off of the Chem Trails elimination July 4th you know the ones the bad democrats put up to brain wash us all. It’s just like the song Willy sang Blue Sky again he should of sang that song proudly when President Trump signed against the chem trails. Well I wish everyone for or against President Trump a wonderful and safe evening. I for one will guard for you all to have a safe night.
А я впервые увидел этот фильм в 2017 году и услышал эту музыку. Потом узнал,что Дмитрий Темкин был русскими. Меня это и обрадовало и в общем не удивило. Россия в культурном отношении, в начале 20 века, была уже великой страной и даже приход большевиков,хоть и помешал и уничтожил многие дарования,но русская культура уцелела. Везде и в россии и в эмиграции.Америка всегда собирала великих людей и таланты всех национальностей и продолжает собирать. И это делает США великой страной,где расскрываются дарования и радуют потом все человечество. Пусть так будет и в дальнейшем. Пусть в мире гремит музыка ,а не разрывы бомб и снарядов!
Пардон, Тёмкин был все же еврей,другой вопрос,что он был воспитан на русской культурной почве. Кстати, в музыке к фильму Аламо есть кусок ,мотивы которого явно заимствованным из "песни Дженни" из фильма советского 30 годов " Остов Сокровищ"-" тема :" Если ранили друга- перевяжет подруга". Это естественно не плагиат - видимо Тёмкин посмотрел этот фильм во время войны( существовал обмен фильмами- и даже снимались натуральные ремейки во время войны - так американский фильм "Сахара"- ремейк фильма А.Рома "13"!)
It's incredible that The Alamo didn't win the Oscar for best musical score ! I believe it to the best musical score ever written for a movie . The musicians , instrumentalists and choir , were all top notch . The trumpet player was fantastic ! The feel that he put into his playing was amazing .. also the movie set was so beautifully done , especially the chapel . Originally the chapel had a small cross on top of the hump . One day before filming was to begin John Wayne was standing in front of the chapel staring at it for quite some time . He then ordered one of the workmen to take the small cross down and replace it with a much larger cross like one that had fallen ❌ . That really gave the chapel its character. Wayne had considered giving Alfred Ybarra a full screen credit .. he really should have
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If your in Tennessee and you want to see the Davy Crockett house, where he was born apparently, DONT GO !!!...it's like a shed with a tiny little plaque on the wall!..I drove for hours looking for this place, huge disappointment considering he's a national hero!
Well, Yanks make a big deal out of the smallest thing, if there's money to be made, so I'm surprised there wasn't a fucking theme park there!...slipped up there boy's!!
Hi Otohira, I know the timeless feeling of which you speak. My parents took our family through Texas back in 1961. I also had a great, great grandfather who fought in the American Civil War and was mustered out of the service in Corpus Christie, Texas at the end of this conflict. こんにちは、乙平、あなたが話す時を超えた気持ちを知っています。私の両親は1961年にテキサス州に家族を連れて行きました。また、アメリカ内戦で戦った偉大なgreat祖父もいました。 Kon'nichiwa, otsu hira, anata ga hanasu toki o koeta kimochi o shitte imasu. Watashi no ryōshin wa 1961-nen ni Tekisasu-shū ni kazoku o tsurete ikimashita. Mata, Amerika naisen de tatakatta idaina great sofu mo imashita
1960: "Green Leaves of Summer" was a big hit single on its own; Tiomkin used a different lyricist, Paul Francis Webster, rather than his regular Ned Washington. No, this one did not do well at the box office, rare for Wayne, but in his defense, he was beginning to have health problems that would lead to his losing a lung to cancer not long after. Wayne learned the need for great music from John Ford.
I grew up on this. We all rooted for the texicans. The mood of the movie ranges from comic and cheerful to reverent and religious. Wonderful characters, good performances. Sad to see the boys lose, but the movie doesn't dwell on that. It is a celebration of their lives, not a complaint on their deaths. Kudos to Duke, who redeemed himself after that awful conqeror.
