The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987) (TV)

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  • THE ALAMO: 13 DAYS TO GLORY


    DIRECTED BY BURT KENNEDY
    THE FINNEGAN COMPANY/ FRIES ENTERTAINMENT
    BRIGGLE, HENNESSEY, CARROTHERS & ASSOCIATES



    Information from IMDb


    Plot Summary
    The story of the famed siege of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution,
    in which a small band of soldiers held off an overwhelming army under the Mexican general
    Santa Anna long enough to allow the Texan army to gather its strength.
    Written by Jim Beaver


    Full Cast
    James Arness ... Jim Bowie
    Brian Keith ... Col. Davy Crockett
    Alec Baldwin ... Col. William Barrett Travis
    David Ogden Stiers ... Col. Black
    Jim Metzler ... Maj. James Bonham
    Tom Schanley ... Pvt. Danny Cloud
    Fernando Allende ... Col. Alamonte (Santa Anna's nephew)
    Kathleen York ... Mrs. Susannah Dickinson
    Isela Vega ... Senora Cos
    Raul Julia ... Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
    Gene Evans ... McGregor
    Michael Wren ... Juan Seguin
    Jon Lindstrom ... Capt. Almeron Dickinson
    Hinton Battle ... Joe (Travis' servant)
    David Sheiner ... Luis
    Noble Willingham ... Dr. Pollard
    Eloy Casados ... Gregorio
    Tony Becker ... George Taylor
    Thomas Callaway ... Col. James W. Fannin
    Lorne Greene ... Gen. Sam Houston
    Buck Taylor ... Buck Smith
    Jerry Potter ... Jacob Walker (as Jerry Potter)
    Grainger Hines ... Charles Despelier
    Tom Everett ... Major Evans
    Stan Ivar ... Doc Sutherland
    Ethan Wayne ... Edward Taylor
    Jan Tríska ... General Wolf
    Gary Kasper ... Major Wheelwright
    John Furlong ... Zanco
    Jay Baker ... Hayes
    Dale Swann ... Lt. Kimball
    Laura Fabian ... Lucia
    Loyda Ramos ... Senora Esparza
    Bel Hernandez ... Mina (as Bel Sandre)
    Laura Harring ... Santa Anna's bride (as Laura Martinez Harring)
    Nicky Blair ... John Jones
    Red West ... Cockran


    Writing Credits
    Lon Tinkle (book)
    Clyde Ware and
    Norman Morrill (as Norman McLeod Morrill)


    Produced by
    Stockton Briggle .... executive producer
    Richard Carrothers .... executive producer
    Bill Finnegan .... producer
    Patricia Finnegan .... producer (as Pat Finnegan)
    Dennis Hennessy .... executive producer
    Sheldon Pinchuk .... producer


    Original Music
    Peter Bernstein


    Cinematography
    John Elsenbach


    Trivia
    The final charge consists mostly of footage from The Last Command.


    Final film appearance of Lorne Greene.


    Memorable Quotes


    Filming Locations
    Alamo Village - Highway 674, Brackettville, Texas, USA
    Brackettville, Texas, USA

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

    Edited once, last by ethanedwards ().

  • The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987) was made for TV
    and directed by one of Duke's directors, Burt Kennedy.
    In fact the Duke connection goes on to include star James Arness, and Duke's son Ethan Wayne.


    It is also worth noting that this movie was the final film
    appearance of Lorne Greene.


    It also includes final charge footage from a previously reviewed movie
    The Last Command


    User Review

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

  • This is a TV movie, and not one of the better ones. Burt Kennedy must have printed every frame of film he shot. In fact, several times he shows them over again to take up time. Travis' last stand on the well is repeated so often, it's almost laughable.
    Mrs. Dickinson is played as an in-your-face pioneer free spirit who tells off Santa Anna after the battle!
    One hopes that Brian Keith was smashed through the whole production because that would explain his mumbling, listless performance.
    The cribbed scenes from "The Last Command" don't mesh well with new footage that was shot at Alamo Village, using Wayne's set. The walls don't even match.
    I think everyone's heart was in the right place but there just wasn't enough money to insure a decent production.



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  • I think Arness was appearing on TV fairly regularly, in the TV Gunsmoke movies, and also the remake of Red River around the time of this film. They wanted to use footage from Duke's film for the battle, but according to Burt Kennedy, Michael Wayne wanted too much money for it. So they used the Last Command-which was at least decent in most scenes. In the end tho, it really wasn't much more accurate than Duke's version.

  • I was headed for Dallas and stopped in Turkey,TX. in 2005 to see the Bob Wills museum. I talked to the head of the Texas Sate Historical society.
    What a gracious man, he was about 70. He told me the Alamo picture with Dennis Quaid was historically the most accurate picture.

    "A people that values their Privileges above it's Principles. Soon looses both." Dwight Eisenhower


  • The best spot on review of this very bad movie. One big disappointing film. I once ask Ethan if he wore the same rat-coon skin cap that his Dad wore. He wasn't sure.
    Brian Keith could not have been more miscasted.

    ''baby sister i was born game and intend to go out that way.''

  • I remember watching this movie when it came out thinking it wasn't THAT badly done even though much of it was pinched from other movies. Id watch it again because of the star power-minus alec baldwin.

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