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

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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