The Alamo (1960)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053580/



Produced and Directed by John Wayne, starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett.

This movie is a joke.

For being a movie about a historical event, it never explains the cause of the Texas Revolution and why the Battle of the Alamo took place.

The running time is 2 hours and 47 minutes.

The actual total running time for the battle sequences is about 12 minutes.

Most of the rest of the movie is John Wayne's dominating the screen time and being comical or preaching his personal and political views and beliefs that have nothing to do with the history of the Battle of the Alamo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Al...film)#Politics

An insult to everyone who fought and died on both sides at the Alamo and in the Texas Revolution.

This movie is evidence what happens when movie studios give an over-rated second rate actor who thinks he is an A-list actor (John Wayne) too much artistic and creative Carte Blanche!

I can't believe this insulting trash was nominated for Best Picture!!

I did some research:

the defenders at the Alamo were outnumbered 10-1.

Their weapons were gun powder muskets and gun powder handguns and a few cannon.

In 1836, when this event took place, the following weapons were not invented and/or available yet:

the 6 shot Revolver that used a self-contained metallic cartridges rather than loose powder, pistol ball, and percussion caps (1854), the Winchester repeating rifle (1866), the Gatling gun (1860), the Howitzer cannon (1859).

If the Alamo defenders had those weapons then, it would had been a different story for the Mexican Army.

1/5