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Background. By 1945, John Wayne had decided to make a movie about the 1836 Battle of the Alamo. He hired James Edward Grant as scriptwriter, and the two began researching the battle and preparing a draft script. They hired John Ford's son Patrick (who wrote a screenplay about the battle in 1948) as a research assistant ...
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Jan 11, 2020 · The film depicting the 1836 Battle of the Alamo where 187 Texan volunteers held off thousands of Mexican soldiers in a fight for freedom and ...
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Sep 4, 2020 · The Alamo was not a huge commercial success upon its release – it made its $12 million budget back only after Wayne sold the film rights back to ...
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Documentary about the making of the John Wayne film The Alamo (1960). Included are behind-the-scenes photos and footage of the actual production of the film ...
Released in 1960 by United Artists, The Alamo starred John Wayne as Davy Crockett, Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie, and Laurence Harvey as William B. Travis. John ...