Talk:The Alamo (1960 film)

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[edit] More Movie Errors

• In One TV syndicated version of the Movie, Bowie and Crockett discovered a storeroom of rifles and gunpowder; part of this scene which also has Bowie and Crockett having to kill a double dealing swindler who tries to kill them is edited out.
• In the movie Crockett nearly romances a Spanish Woman who was saved by Crockett from the swindler; in fact Crockett was still married!
• LAstly the evening before the Alamo falls, Santa Anna orders an attack on the Alamo which results in 50 Alamo casualites; in fact prior to the Alamo's fall there was only one Texas casualty-one man wounded in the foot!

With all these errors (including the errors I helped list in the article), it's no wonder the film was largely ignored by the Academy! --- JS, 70.129.41.10 18:40, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

I very much doubt that the Academy much cared about the real and imagined historical inaccuracies of the movie. Many a historical travesty has won awards from the Academy. The "Historical Inaccuracies" section seems to have become a "Let's Dump of This Movie" section; so much so that the article is endanger of losing a neutral point of view. Is it really an 'inaccuracy' that a 3 hour movie doesn't devote half its running time to the final battle? Is this movie really the worst offender in this regard of the five other Alamo movies that have Wiki articles? (Note that NONE of these articles have an 'Inaccuracies' section.) Perhaps someone should start a section of "Historical Accuracies" for balance? Cdixon 19:23, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I pretty much started the Inaccuracies section any number of months back. I was just trying to point out a few things. Oh, well... at least it's been given better balance. — Cinemaniac (talk) 02:31, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] over emphasis on accuracy

Since this is a film that is not meant to be a documentary, there seems to be way to much focus on it historical accuracy. Also, some of the statements about history go against other wikipedia articles on the subject. Rds865 (talk) 23:15, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

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