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3 unusual facts about The Alamo


The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory

The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory (1987) is a made-for-TV film about the 1836 Battle of the Alamo written and directed by Burt Kennedy, starring James Arness as Jim Bowie, Brian Keith as Davy Crockett, Alec Baldwin as Col. William Travis, Raul Julia as Santa Anna, and featuring a single scene cameo by Lorne Greene as Sam Houston.

The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty

The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty is a 1938 American black-and-white war film directed by Stuart Paton and produced by H. W. Kier and Norman Sheldon.

The film is an educational reenactment of the siege at the Alamo, but the filming location was actually Mission San José.


Brauntex Theatre

Many members of the staff recalls many highlights of the early movie operations such as the time that Pedro Gonzalez appeared while filming the John Wayne classic, The Alamo.

Dale Swann

He also appeared in the miniseries The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory and in numerous made-for-television movies, including Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure, Do You Know the Muffin Man?, Buried Alive, The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson, Switched at Birth and Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story.

Emilio Echevarría

Echevarría also had small parts in two international productions, first as Raoul, a Cuban agent in the James Bond film Die Another Day and then as Antonio López de Santa Anna in The Alamo.

Jimmie Haskell

He entered the motion picture soundtrack industry by becoming an uncredited orchestrator for Dimitri Tiomkin's The Alamo and composed his first score the following year Love in a Goldfish Bowl.

Leon Rippy

Rippy has worked with Roland Emmerich on seven movies including: Moon 44 (1990), Eye of the Storm (1991), Universal Soldier (1992), Stargate (1994), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), The Patriot (2000), Eight Legged Freaks (2002) and also had a role in the 2004 film The Alamo.

Leslie Bohem

Les Bohem's writing credits include the miniseries Taken, Dante's Peak, Twenty Bucks, Daylight, and The Alamo.

Victor A. Gangelin

Along with his Academy Award-nominated films, his 47 film and television credits include the John Wayne epics The Searchers and The Alamo as well as episodes of The Roy Rogers Show and My Mother the Car.

Volley gun

The Nock volley gun was considered obsolete by 1805, but a surviving weapon was carried by Richard Widmark in the 1960 movie The Alamo.


see also

1997 Alamo Bowl

The 1997 edition to the Alamo Bowl featured the Purdue Boilermakers, and the Oklahoma State Cowboys.

2000 Alamo Bowl

The 2000 edition to the Alamo Bowl featured the Northwestern Wildcats, and the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

2002 Alamo Bowl

The 2002 edition to the Alamo Bowl featured the Wisconsin Badgers, and the Colorado Buffaloes.

2004 Alamo Bowl

The 2004 edition to the Alamo Bowl featured the Ohio State Buckeyes, and the Oklahoma State Cowboys.

Alsbury

Juana Navarro Alsbury (1812–1888), nurse for Jim Bowie at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836

Brad Neely

Neely worked on a comedy novel about the Civil War, but when asked about it at an event at the Alamo Draft House in Austin, Texas said, "I realized about 500 pages in that it wasn't that funny," and said that he is no longer planning on releasing the book.

Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo

Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo is a 1926 American silent Western starring Cullen Landis, Kathryn McGuire and Joe Rickson, and featuring Bob Fleming, Ralph McCullough, Fletcher Norton, Anne Berryman, Jay Morley, Thomas G. Lingham, Frank Rice, Betty Brown and Bob Steele.

Francisco de Castañeda

The Castañeda family had lived at the Alamo Mission in a remodeled Indian dwelling on the ntechea, to retrieve the cannon formerly given to the citizens of Gonzales in 1831 for Indian defense.

James C. Neill

Nofi, Albert A., The Alamo and the Texas War for Independence, Da Capo Press; ISBN 0-306-80563-4

Liberty: The Siege of The Alamo

Liberty: The Siege of The Alamo, is a musical by Bernard J. Taylor that had its world premiere stage production at the Josephine Theatre, San Antonio, Texas, in 2000.

Mission San Antonio

Alamo Mission in San Antonio (Mission San Antonio de Valero), site of the Battle of the Alamo

Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak

The music for "Akele Hain To Kya Gum Hai" is copied from the instrumental number "Return to the Alamo" by the band The Shadows.

Rafael Ileto

On January 30, 1945, Lt. Ileto with the Alamo Scouts under the command of Lt. Col. Henry Mucci, successfully rescued 516 Prisoners of War held by the Imperial Japanese Army's POW Camp in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija.

Riders in the Sky Present: Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

Riders In The Sky offers a tribute to Davy Crockett, the scout, militiaman, Congressman, and hero of the Alamo whose life became an American legend.

Siege of the Alamo

On February 11, the commander of the Alamo, Colonel James C. Neill, left the Alamo, likely to recruit additional reinforcements and gather supplies.

T. J. Tarsney

On June 22, 1894, he was staying in the Alamo Hotel in Colorado Springs.

The Man from the Alamo

During the siege at the Alamo, John Stroud (Glenn Ford) is chosen to leave the fort and warn the families of the mission's defenders of the impending arrival of General Santa Anna.

The Monster Squad

The Alamo Drafthouse held two sold-out screenings of the Monster Squad on January 9, 2010 with stars Andre Gower, Ryan Lambert, and Jon Gries along with writer Shane Black and director Fred Dekker all in attendance.