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Remembering the Alamo Movies

by | May 1, 2004 | Western Movies

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This April, Touchstone Pictures (a subsidiary of Disney) released a $75 million-plus film The Alamo, which reinterpreted this most famous of frontier battles. Disney initiated the first great Alamo craze in 1954 with its TV and movie portrayals of Davy Crockett, but it remains to be seen if lightning can strike twice for the house that Walt built. Even the most ambitious Alamo film to date, John Wayne’s 1960 The Alamo, was a critical and financial flop. The Alamo has proven a difficu


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