"The Alamo" (1960) question for Indy

[Trevor]

I refer to it in my book as "mammoth, exciting but historically flawed": would that be an accurate description?

In case people wonder why this movie is in there, Laurence Harvey, who played Colonel Travis was raised and educated in Johannesburg and actually considered himself to be South African so we claim him. 

[RCMerchant]

f**k the ALAMO. And f**k John Wayne. f**kin' nazi b***h.

[indianasmith]

Hey, Ronnie, with all due respect, chill for a sec.

Yes, that's a good descriptor for the 1960 film.   Virtually every historical detail in it is wrong, but when you watch it you can still get a broad idea of what the Alamo was about.

[RCMerchant]

Sorry Indy. Sorry Trev. I just can't stand the racist piece of s**t.

[Trevor]

Hey, Ronnie, with all due respect, chill for a sec.

Yes, that's a good descriptor for the 1960 film.   Virtually every historical detail in it is wrong, but when you watch it you can still get a broad idea of what the Alamo was about.

Thanks, I will credit you as my historical source 😊🐢

[Trevor]

Sorry Indy. Sorry Trev. I just can't stand the racist piece of s**t.

No worries 😊🐢

[Trevor]

Virtually every historical detail in it is wrong,

That's a bit like Clint Eastwood's Invictus: talk about historical flaws!! 😳😳😳

[ER]

What depressed me about the superb 2004 telling of the Alamo was that it was a brilliantly accurate film but the very people in Texas you'd think would have supported it were the very ones who spoke out condemning it because of their hatred for Disney and their feeling the story of the siege belonged to them and no one else had a right to depict  that narrative. (Even when they clutched their misinformation about it to their chests like a cross against a world full of vampires.) It made no sense but the hostility I encountered for the movie in that state at the time shocked me. Austin was Austin but I learned fast how shut-minded way too many Texans seemed to be, almost like a cult mentality in a way.  Like go to Nebraska and say something unsupportive of their football team and they'll want to kill you, with even little kids leaping into the act. Lots of places have variations of that, in Columbus they genuinely seem to hate Michigan, in Boston I was openly scoffed at as a hick for not being from Boston, when I lived in Kentucky even some teachers said, "Show you bleed Wildcat blue or keep your mouth closed." WTH? Provincialism is alive and well. But annnnnieway, that was a fine movie and it deserved better than it got. Its failure to generate in the box office killed historical films across the '00s.