"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!!!
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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..
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..
@@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.....
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
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”.
I. saw. The. Alamo. when. l. was. 6. years. old. in. 1961. It. left. a. huge. impact. on. me. I. enjoy. seeing. it. every. time. Wonderful. movie. and. Great. actors. and. actresses
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.
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).
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
@@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.
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!
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!
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.
🤔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! 😁👍🇺🇲
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.
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.
@@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.
Recently there has been a number of revisionist histories of the Alamo. None of them diminish the heroism of the defenders. These were generally not professional soldiers that did the best the could under the circumstances.
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.
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!
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."
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.
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.
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 " .
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 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
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!!!!!!
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.😁🤠🇺🇲
As a child, I read so many books on Crocket Boone and Bridger and all the rest. Crocket couldn't carry Boone's powder, but he got himself killed at a famous battle.
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
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.
This ALAMO film, artists,musics,songs affected my heart when I watched it first time years years ago
One of the most moving scenes I have ever watched . You have to have a heart of stone to be not affected by it.
"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!!!
Looks like they both got 'er done.
Actually, Wayne was the immigrant.
My grandmothers uncle made that set and he was made when the destroyed it
@@KIDZSTUDIOS. interesting.
@@bien.dotadoAfter that, we kicked Mexico's ass. Cowards.
The Alamo is one of my favorite movies, an excellent example of movies that we don't have anymore 😔 .
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.
Absolutely.
Wowwwwww
Glorious End? Thats all Bullship.They die for other Poeples Greed,like in all Wars.Fuck d Glory.I wana live.
Great respect for your 3x grand father!
Horst Lauer spoken like a coward
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.
AMEN
i cry with you, from vietnam for 6mo now; every american should cry for shame-- then march on DC (or where ever the real govt is...)
@@aptcmpasion London and Israel is where the rulers dwell, pretty much.
@@mmccrownus2406 With the exception of Trump, every US president in the last 30 years screwed over Israel.
@@olekcholewa8171
Marty Robbins
Ballad of the Alamo
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!
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 the Alamo toy playset
Checkout 13 days of glory it's pretty good too
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!
Joan O'Brien - the personification of beauty. And in 2023 still looking great at age 87.
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 Its a hell of a thing to have the name Chambers..just sayin.
@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.
@andrew chambers www.texasmonthly.com/article/say-aint-davy/
@andrew chambers Damned right it did. And the turds who fought at the Alamo fought to defend slavery. May they rot in hell.
to this day, still brings tears to my eyes. I must leave the room so my kids don't see the tears.
You must have some cardboard sensibilities.
HUZZAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Same, as do I in the movie Glory.... it tears me up.
Let them see the tears and pray they will one day know why.
@@walterlacy5970 Good advice
@@walterlacy5970 Amen Walter! People need to be reminded that kind of valor still exists.
These movies need to be shown in all schools.
We finished it at school just two day ago! 😊
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..
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..
Saw it in Dallas when it first came out. Always enjoyed it
This movie always make me cry for the loss of those brave men who fought to make Texas free
Actually it's been more recently reported that Crocket was on his knees crying, begging for his life.
actually thay went there to steel the land from Mexico
@@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???
Yes its a sad thing loss of life they fought for the independence of Texas and I'm damn proud to be a Texan
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.....
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
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”.
Actress Joan O'Brien at her best! That is a look I hope I never receive from any woman....
@@trjnsd6874 And me, it conveys utter contempt and only a woman could give a man such a look, far more effective than a man punching you.
I. saw. The. Alamo. when. l. was. 6. years. old. in. 1961. It. left. a. huge. impact. on. me. I. enjoy. seeing. it. every. time. Wonderful. movie. and. Great. actors. and. actresses
It was an awesome movie to portray Mexicans as men not butchers - and the tribute of Santa Anna is nice too. John Wayne as a director had great class.
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.
@@smotnick I much prefer the Mexican Federalists.
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.
As I watch this it was yesterday, march 6th , the Alamo fell. Let Texas remember , remember the immortal 32 , remember the heros .
Great movie made by a great man
The beautiful actress is Joan O'Brien, and she still lives (83).
Yes
They don't come more beautiful than Joan O'Brien.
@@hennagaijin100 actaully they do. There was Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale, Lollo, and Kim Novak.
The More Beautiful actress was Linda Crystal. To this day not I have ever seen a more Lovely lady.
@@smotnick I would say BB, CC, and DD are on top with Joan O'Brien right behind.
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.
If you only want to know the truth just read a book, never see a movie
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).
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
At a time when they made absolutely great movies!
and was so totally historically inaccurate except for the ending.
This wasn't great. "Spartacus" (same year) was great. This was like a vanity piece co-directed by Wayne.
@@smotnick Vanity? Wayne sold and mortgage everything he had to get this film made. Shame on you!
@@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.
@@johnmolina3284 What coming out of Hollywood isn't vanity ? C'mon man.
Cattle die ,kinsmen die ,we ourselves will likewise die.
The one thing I know that dies not.
The deeds of the great dead!
Oh, that is from the Norwegian Edda! Cool!
wonderful movie
All men have flaws, some are lucky enough to die as heroes some go thru life missing the people who mean the most to them
Wow this old movie ❤
This was filmed in brackitsville Texas, they built a Alamo set, its called Alamo village
I’m not a Texan but LONG LIVE TEXAS👍🏼👍🏼🙏🙏🙏
I HOPE TEXAS REMEMBERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great movie
LMAOFF
My heart broke when the little girl said wears daddy
Bellissimo film con un cast di attori eccezionale!!! Alessandro Firenze Italy
This movie was a fable and a very good one
I saw this 3hen I was 10 and lived it ever since.its aclaasic
I remember singing this song on stage in our Elementary school auditorium in Clifton, NJ. Must have been 10 or 11 years old at the time.
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!
John Wayne's version is by far the best.
How is it by far the best when Hancock's version, though a commercial failure, is more historically accurate???
At this point the Texans in this movie should basically won because of how many times the movie cocksucks them specifically Crockett
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!
Never forget
lol
May god bless texas 🇺🇸🇺🇸
🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱 YEA TEXAS
The little girl that played Dickinson’s daughter is John Wayne’s daughter.
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.
And democrats are willing participants in the Mexican La Raza reconquest.
@@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.
Mexican-Americans are US citizens, PLEASE tell me how "they want it back"???
@@oscarwildeghost you're an idiot and a right wing conspiracy theorist.
@@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.
🤔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! 😁👍🇺🇲
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.
It was 185 texican s holding off 3.000 Mexicans for thirteen days and Santa Anna’s thirteen bands played deguello all day and night every day
La scena più bella.❤
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.
LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS!
This song no disrespect to Mexican or American touches my heart i get a bit emotional
I’m so proud to be a Texan although I’m not brave as they were....at least I don’t think so.....
Sounds like regionalism to me.
@@smotnick Is that a bad thing?
@@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.
You don't know what your going to do Untill your face to face with it
Then your true character Will show.
I like John Wayne ALAMO, god bless the DUKE
yeah i know the other one is supposed to be more historically accurate but this one is more fun ( and eh close enough )
Relevant again.
One off the saddest end to film
A lot of Brave Men On both Sides died that day, Fighting for what they Believed in🍀
Yes Sir they did
Filibusters
@@nonsufficitorbis9456 true.
Defenders were there by choice, Mexican military by order. Sad that the violent ambitions of men has had such consequences through history.😔
Recently there has been a number of revisionist histories of the Alamo. None of them diminish the heroism of the defenders. These were generally not professional soldiers that did the best the could under the circumstances.
Why 33 dislikes for this?
Great film with sad ending.
Because it was a vanity piece and historically inaccurate.
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.
@@smotnick anarchy? if the texans themselves rebelled against mexico for the abolition of slavery in mexico
@@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.
Remember the Alamo
le premier film que j ai vu ai cinéma avec mes parents , quelle musique magnifique ........
Was in high school when this came out and the one thing we laughed at was did the guy have a skunk for his hat : )
God Bless Texas👏👍💖🙏
Wonderful movie. My favorite John Wayne movie
God Bless Texas.......
Quite a brilliant scene summing much up.
Great movie saw it as a kid at a drive in
Make sure to see the Roadshow version which is 3 hrs, 22 minutes.
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!
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."
from what i understand they didnt think the mexican army would be able to get there as soon as they did
What’s the real sombre song that’s played while all the men are sitting around I believe before the final battle? It’s real sad sounding.
Green Leaves of Summer
This part of the movie all way s makes me stand at atenchioñ salute and cry and I don't care who sees
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
Oh by the way read the history
@@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.
What great movie !
March 6, 1836 the Battle of the Alamo
From what I gather from the history books. Only a handful of women and children walked away. He slaughtered most of them.
The end scène, i cree !😢😢😢 ! Wonderfull movie !(Greetings to the France !)
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.
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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 " .
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?
Superbe film j’ai adoré et acheté en Blu-ray ❤
SALUTE, Then Charge! Remember the ALAMO😢
１９６０年にジョンウェンが、自ら監督した３時間近くの映画ですが、５２年前に淀川長治さん司会の日曜洋画劇場を見まして、ジョンウェンは、ニューシネマ以前にハリウッドの頂天の俳優であったのを感じました。
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
Le courage d'une femme à travers son mari
The greatest display of human courage in the history of the world 🌎
With the exception of
Jesus at the crucifixion
I had a cousin die at the Alamo, Jim Bowie.
my alltime fave person in history since i was a kid,,,im no kid anymore,,,and JIM BOWIE still is my fav!
💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
GRUELDAD. ES MEJOR ESTA. DARNOS CUENTA. CADA VES. MENOS. HUMANOS. ISABEL ❤
I liked the movie, but it did not happen this way.
Suzanna Dickinson was a dark-haired woman, not a blonde. And she wasn't the only noncombatant to leave that morning.
Yea and where are the rest of the women and children
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.
oh please
The filthy rotten demoncrats
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!!!!!!
texas wanted slaves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@rodrigjose Your point dick weed?
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.😁🤠🇺🇲
I hope they Remember. I hope TEXAS remembers….- Gen Sam Houston
When the violins come in over the chorus/melody around the 2 min mark, what is that called in music? It's beautiful and super affective.
As a child, I read so many books on Crocket Boone and Bridger and all the rest. Crocket couldn't carry Boone's powder, but he got himself killed at a famous battle.
Santa Ana is portrayed here as a real man of honour. He waa able to pay respect to the courage of a dead enemy, respecting his family
This always makes me cry because I'm proud to be a person who believes in being part of The United States of America 😢
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
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna tried to adopt Susanna Dickinson's daughter and take her to Mexico to give her a proper education, but she refused.
Mexico was always see as the baddies..Yet they were fighting to save their land.As anyone would.
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.
I am croatian and we have our ALAMO .. Vukovar
Zvigetar is more like it