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Fifty Years After The Alamo

by | Apr 24, 2010 | Western Movies

Written for S.A.G.s, otherwise known as “Serious Alamo Guys.”
Just how or why John Wayne first came upon the idea of making a movie about the Alamo is possibly the only mystery remaining in a movie that has been examined and covered from every imaginable angle during the past 50 years since its premiere. Long before a single camera was cranked or an extra dressed up in a period costume, photographers, camera crews, journ


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