The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory (1987)
- Original title
- The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
- Directed by
- Burt Kennedy
- Genre
- Western film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 20m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 14 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This television film depicts the 1836 Battle of the Alamo. It follows James Bowie as he leads the Texan defenders against the Mexican army led by Santa Anna.
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What happens
The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory is a 1987 American Western television film about the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, directed by Burt Kennedy and written by Clyde Ware and Norman McLeod Morrill, based on the 1958 non-fiction book 13 Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo by Lon Tinkle. It stars James Arness as James Bowie, Brian Keith as Davy Crockett, Alec Baldwin as William Barrett Travis, Raul Julia as Antonio López de Santa Anna, and features a cameo appearance by Lorne Greene as Sam Houston. Unlike most other films about the Alamo — the most prominent other exception being the 1955 film The Last Command (which was released during the cultural frenzy created by Walt Disney's Davy Crockett television miniseries) — it focuses on Bowie as the main character rather than Crockett. The film aired on NBC on January 26, 1987. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Gone to Texas (1986)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.