Replica built for ’60 movie losing battle to time, nature BRACKETTVILLE, Texas – Time and Mother Nature are threatening to dismantle the Alamo. Not the original, but the replica 18th-century Spanish ...

SAN ANTONIO––Wanna buy a cardboard cutout of John Wayne? How about a chuckwagon? They are among about 2,400 props, antiques, artifacts, toys and trinkets on sale this weekend at Alamo Village, the set ...

BRACKETTVILLE, Texas Time and Mother 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 ...

For personal reasons, John Wayne sought to make his 1960 movie, “The Alamo,” a patriotic tribute and not a factual account of the 1836 siege and battle, according to the author of a new book on the ...

Davy Crockett (well, John Wayne) stood atop its walls in his coonskin cap. Capt. Augustus McCrae (Robert Duvall) rode past with friend Woodrow Call (Tommy Lee Jones) not too long after whacking a ...

Dramatic images of John Wayne holding off Mexican soldiers in the 1960 movie “The Alamo” may still be vivid memories for generations of moviegoers, but the dusty, Southwest Texas set where those ...

The Alamo (1960) is an American historical film that revolves around a band of Texan soldiers who try to fight against a large Mexican army, but they are vastly outnumbered. The movie was directed by ...

JOHN WAYNE'S THE ALAMO, the author’s impressive and comprehensive work about the 1960 big-screen epic. Updated from its first edition in 2005, ALAMO VILLAGE has been greatly expanded with detailed ...

Besieged by delays, rumors and bad press, writer-director John Lee Hancock must have felt he was fighting a no-win battle with his new version of The Alamo. He had too many characters to serve, too ...