When Bowie first walks into the chapel, you can see all the way back to the eastern wall. By this time, there would have been a dirt ramp leading up to two 12-pound cannon that overlooked the wall. In the same scene, the doorway to Bowie's left is where the powder magazine would have been, and to the right is where the women and children were. In the movie, these uses for the rooms are reversed. See more...
Directed by John Wayne, starring Frankie Avalon, John Wayne, Laurence Harvey, Richard Widmark (add more)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War, Western
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Watch Travis after he is killed in the movie. As the Mexicans run past him, he moves his left hand out of the way. [Perhaps the actor really did move his hand to avoid having it stepped on by the Mexicans. However, in the context of the film, we don't know for sure that Travis was dead before hitting the ground. It's quite possible that Travis involuntarily moved his left hand just before dying.]
As Susannah and Angelina are escorted between Santa Anna's troops, some grime mysteriously appears on Angelina's cheek, and some of the grime on Susannah's neck disappears. [Kids touch their faces all the time. It's possible that Angelina had dirt on her hands, perhaps from the saddle where she's resting them, and then touched her cheek. There's time between shots for this to be the case.]
At the cotillion/dance before leaving for Texas, David Crocket and the band are playing "Listen to the Mockingbird" (music familiar to fans of the Three Stooges). The Alamo took place in 1836; "Listen to the Mockingbird" wasn't published until 1855. [This was in the NEW Alamo, not the John Wayne version.]
It's not likely that the flag with "1824" on it flew over the Alamo at this time. By February 1836, most of the Anglos were fighting for an independent Texas, not for restoring the Mexican Constitution of 1824. [The 1824 on the flag was a reminder to the Mexican army of the treaty of 1824. Not to return to the Mexican Constitution.]
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