The Man from the Alamo
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The Man from the Alamo

Year:
Duration:
79 min
Genres:
Western
IMDB rate:
6.5
Director:
Budd Boetticher
Awards:
Won Golden Globe.
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1953-08-24
Filming Locations: Mexican Street, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Glenn Ford
Glenn Ford
The Man from the Alamo
Julie Adams
Beth Anders
Chill Wills
John Gage
Hugh O'Brian
Lt. Lamar
Victor Jory
Jess Wade
Neville Brand
Dawes
John Daheim
Cavish
Myra Marsh
Ma Anders
Jeanne Cooper
Kate Lamar
Marc Cavell
Carlos
Edward Norris
Mapes
Guy Williams
Sergeant
Carl Andre
Soldier
Emile Avery
Soldier
Trevor Bardette
Davy Crockett
Raymond Bond
Minor Role
Bob Burns
Wagon Train Member
Polly Burson
Woman on Train
Roy Butler
Minor Role
Robert Carson
Jim, Texas Patriot at Meeting (uncredited)
Phil Chambers
(uncredited)
Fred Coby
Soldier
Richard H. Cutting
Franklin Citizen
George Eldredge
Sheriff Kohl
Frank Ellis
Minor Role
Helen Gibson
Wagon Train Member
Brett Halsey
Courier (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
Soldier
Bob Herron
(uncredited)
Robert F. Hoy
Soldier
Ethan Laidlaw
Franklin Citizen
Walter Lawrence
Minor Role
Evan Loew
Mrs. Mapes
Kenneth MacDonald
Franklin Citizen in Lynch Mob
John McKee
Kay
Frank Mills
Alamo Soldier
Monte Montague
Franklin Citizen
Alberto Morin
Trooper
Jack Mower
Texas Patriot at Meeting
Howard Negley
General Sam Houston
Erik Neilson
Lamar's Son
Eddie Parker
Franklin Citizen
Dan Poore
Cobby
Hugh Prosser
(uncredited)
Stuart Randall
Jim Bowie
Walter Reed
Billings
Felice Richmond
Minor Role
David Sharpe
Alamo Soldier
Robert Smiley
Hayworth
Arthur Space
Lt. Col. William Barrett Travis
Duke Taylor
(uncredited)
Harte Wayne
Minor Role
Dennis Weaver
Reb
Patsy Weil
Lamar's Daughter
Smoki Whitfield
Sam
Stuart Whitman
Orderly
Frank Wilcox
Texas Patriot at Meeting
Guy Wilkerson
Rifleman
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Trivia
Opening credits: The story of Texas symbolizes the spirit of independence so close to the heart of all Americans. Her people fought for Mexico's freedom from Spain and lived peacefully as a separate province until... ...General Santa Anna seized the presidency of Mexico. They were then faced with the prospect of military government or war. General Sam Houston was entrusted with the task of mapping a course of action that would determine the future of Texas ....
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Goofs
The one armed man as he exits the river at the last scenes of the movie reveals his hidden arm in the back of his pants.
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The Battle of the Alamo was fought in 1836, but John Stroud is wearing a Stetson type cowboy hat that wasn't even invented until 1865. It is more in appearance to the cowboy hats of the 1880s or 1890s.
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When Sam Houston enters the town of Franklin and has the townsfolk called together to announce that the Alamo has fallen, he's wearing a blue 1860's Civil War Calvary hat with crossed sabers. The Alamo fell in 1836.
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Quotes
John Stroud: If you get tired of it here, why don't you walk out?
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Lt. Col. Travis: How do you feel, Jim?
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Jess Wade: Where'd you come from?
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