Before I read a single word about the Alamo or paid a visit to the historic mission/battlefield, I saw John Wayne’s movie about ... who played Travis, had a cannon fall on his foot.

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So when John Wayne’s company, Batjac Productions, made ‘The Alamo,’ they rented everything ... belt buckles, cannon replicas, antique keys, spurs and guns, and the late family matriarch ...

Then Laurence Harvey, the British actor who played Colonel Travis, had his foot crushed by a recoiling cannon ... John Wayne, Stephen Harrigan, Phil Collins—I became obsessed. I rented every ...

Davy Crockett. Ronald L. Davis’ book, Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne, explored how proud he was of The Alamo. Even his mentor, John Ford, called it the greatest film he had ever seen.

It feels like a direct rebuke of how Richard Widmark’s Bowie in the John Wayne ... and Tejano Alamo defenders alike. And in the lead-up to the final battle, the skirmishes and cannon fire ...

BRACKETTVILLE - Time and nature are threatening to dismantle the Alamo. Not the original, but the replica 18th-century Spanish mission and Old West movie set John Wayne built for his Oscar ...