The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory

The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory

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Genre Action
Adventure
Drama
History
War
Western
Written by Lon Tinkle (book)
Clyde Ware
Norman Morrill (as Norman McLeod Morrill)
Directed by Burt Kennedy
Starring James Arness
Brian Keith
Alec Baldwin
Theme music composer Peter Bernstein
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s) Stockton Briggle
Richard Carrothers
Dennis Hennessy
Producer(s) Bill Finnegan
Patricia Finnegan
Sheldon Pinchuk
Location(s) Alamo Village - Highway 674, Brackettville, Texas
Cinematography John Elsenbach
Editor(s) Michael N. Knue
Running time

170 minutes

 Budget: $7 million
Box Office: $21 million
Production company(s) Briggle, Hennessey, Carrothers & Associates
The Finnegan Company
Fries Entertainment
Alamo Productions
Orion
Distributor NBC
Release
Original network NBC
Original release January 26, 1987

The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory (1987) is a made-for-TV film about the 1836 Battle of the Alamo written and directed by Burt Kennedy, starring James Arness as James Bowie, Brian Keith as Davy Crockett, Alec Baldwin as William Barrett Travis, Raul Julia as Antonio López de Santa Anna, and featuring a single scene cameo by Lorne Greene as Sam Houston. Unlike most other films about the Alamo — the most prominent other exception being the 1955 film The Last Command (which was released during the cultural frenzy created by Walt Disney's Davy Crockett television miniseries) — it focuses on Bowie as the main character rather than Crockett.

The production was shot at Alamo Village, the Alamo replica built by John Wayne for his lavish 1960 film The Alamo.

Much of the footage of the final battle scene was recycled from earlier films.

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