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Trivia: The hat band on John Wayne's hat once belonged to Gary Cooper. It was a gift to John from Cooper.

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Trivia: For good luck, John Wayne wore a new eye patch every day.

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Trivia: There were two versions of the film released in America, The 1962 release had all the actors speaking English, After the re-release in 1964, all the Germans spoke German.

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Trivia: The director filmed five different deaths of Crockett for the film. The one used is based on a letter from a Mexican officer found in Texas in 1935 and has been called a fake by histories of The Alamo.

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Trivia: The film was to have run six hours with two intermissions, but it was cut down to four with one.

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Trivia: Judy Garland was 16 when she did the film and under California law she was a minor. She could only work four hours a day and had to go to school on the lot every day.

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Trivia: Like in most western films made by John Ford, real Native Americans were used and were paid union scale.

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Trivia: The final party scene was filmed over a three night period at the real Palace Hotel. To save money, the same food was used all three nights, which stank up the place for days.

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Trivia: When Jim Carrey auditioned for the film, he did not do any scenes from it. He did his Las Vegas Elvis show. Eastwood and others in the room could not stop laughing.

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Trivia: John Ford after seeing True Grit said "Harry (Hathaway) didn't know if he was going to do a comedy or a western, so he did both. No one ever talked like that in the real west."

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Trivia: The scene where Crockett and Bowie and others go into a church and find gunpowder and rifles was filmed by "guest" director John Ford. He had shown up and was asked by Wayne to do a number of scenes.

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Trivia: The scene with Peter Sellers and Sterling Hayden was all adlibbed. Only Hayden had learned his lines, but Sellers did not and all his lines were made up on the spot. One only has to look at Hayden's face that he has no idea what is coming next.

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Trivia: In the night scene that was filmed in North Beach on Broadway you can see Hoffman almost get into a real fist fight with drunks who were not members of the cast.

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Trivia: Mrs. Robinson is supposed to be much older than Ben. In fact Anne Bancroft was only six years older than Dustin Hoffman.

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Trivia: When the school boy is slapped on the bus, it is director Don Siegel's hand we see.

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Trivia: The famous shoot out at the Acron took six hours to film. The real SFPD received 20 911 calls from people around that area who thought a real shoot out was going on.

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Trivia: The final battle took four days to film in December of 1959. It cost was 2 million dollars.

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Trivia: Lisa Dickerson is played by John Wayne's real life youngest daughter Aissa, who was 3 in 1959. When she had to say hello or goodbye to Davy Crockett, she kept saying "Hello Daddy" or "Goodbye Daddy." Her lines had to be dubbed in later.

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Trivia: Jimmy Stewart was not the first person picked to play Lindbergh. Stewart at the time was in his mis-40's. The first person at the time the same age that Lindbergh was at the time in 1927, But the actor had been fired by the studio a few days before filming began. His name was Clint Eastwood. Stewart had to lose 25 pounds of weight and dye his hair light brown.

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Trivia: The real Charles Lindbergh was never allowed on the set of the film. Jimmy Stewart said if he showed up, all the cast would walk off. Lindbergh was hated for his pre-WW2 actives with Nazi Germany.

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