Storming The Alamo - The Last Command (USA 1955)

[mitchryder1953]

the fort was way to small, I liked the 2004 version too

[SkyrimFreak5707]

the mexicans never got in the palaside. all the walls were taken over but the palaside. i like the 2004 version because they got basically everything right about the alamo. movies like that piss me off. just saying. but thank you for posting this on you tube :)

[TalonMercenary]

cool

[schallrd1]

I am sure glad I wasn't there.

[agatematt]

The film contains three really great supporting performances --- Ernest Borgnine as Mike "The Bull" Radin, Arthur Hunnicutt as Davy Crockett and J. Carroll Naish as Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana. The following year, Borgnine would win the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in "Marty." Hunnicutt and Naish would remain what they were -- two of the best character actors in the business.

[AFinleyProductions]

this is probably never be made on dvd

[DISTURBEDALLDAYLONG]

thumps up if you recognized this scene from James A. Michener's texas

[TheWerewolf64]

One of the BEST fight Scene's in the movie's. I have this on VHS, one of my favorites.

[AnonymousSeaSparrow]

I wish in the 2004 version they showed Jim Bowie pwning a ton of mexicans with his knife.

[hulkmeister23]

@AnonymousSeaSparrow but in reality he didn't kill anyone, he was already dead from fever.

[Backfromthedeadguy]

@hulkmeister23 If Bowie was conscious at all he took out at least a couple before they got him. The guy was tough and had a high pain thresh hold. Look up the famous Sandbar duel.

[hulkmeister23]

@Backfromthedeadguy No, it is confirmed by many historians that he was near death from fever by the time the battle began and was either too weak to put up a fight or already dead, which most agree he probably was. Not to that if he was alive he wouldn't have taken some of them out.

[Backfromthedeadguy]

@hulkmeister23 And how did they confirm it? It's pure speculation on their part. Even so-called eye-witness accounts are not totally reliable considering that many contradict each other (like how Crockett died). Besides I said "if" he was conscious he put up a fight, doesn't matter if he was at death's door or not. Zero point in further arguing on this point.

[hulkmeister23]

@Backfromthedeadguy They confirmed it because there were eyewitnesses, from the nurse who was at his bedside to the soldiers that stormed his room and stabbed him, the man was dying from Cholera, there is no way in hell he could fight anyone in that weakened state. The point I'm trying to make is that ppl don't seem to care how Bowie died, just Crockett, which proves that it's nothing but simple backlash from the Davy Crockett craze of the 1950s, and not a so-called need for accuracy.

[yoveotube]

santa ana les pateo el trasero,viva mexico.

[BalkanDeputy]

@yoveotube Un poco como los cárteles de la droga están pateando el culo ahora.

[commandersheperd1]

Mexican army: Specialty=Cavarly and open charges

Weakness=Artillery

[manyflga]

I have seen this movie over the years and for me one of the best Alamo fight scenes. Thanks for the post I have waited a long time for it.

[AFinleyProductions]

@manyflga i prefer the newest one because it is historically correct though this is better than the john wayne one by far

[Vovk3]

Napoleon of the West my ass.

[vlad9vt]

good battle scene



[Kharkovkid]

I pity you inferior beings who were never granted the priviledge of learning 7th Grade Texas History under the watchful eye of Mrs. Whittles in an unaircoditioned room during a sweltering late summer San Antonio summer day...

[THATSBAM]

was there ever an artillery attack during the storming of it?

[Speegs23]

@THATSBAM yes, constant bombardment for 13 days and nights, but not a texan died until the final assault, but MExican losses were between the modest estimate of 600 and 1500.

[THATSBAM]

@Speegs23 Thanks but I was asking more if like the during the actual final assault if the cannons were still fireing into the mission.

[Speegs23]

@Speegs23 well sanata anna was ruthless enough to kill his own men so it is a possibility but the final assault was a pre-dawn sneak attack so if there was cannon fire it would've transpired with mexican troops engaged with the walls.

[reanactingjerseyguy]

@THATSBAM yes but suprisingly no men were lost

[TruthfulTerran]

@THATSBAM Yes. The Mexicans barraged the Alamo 12-13 days before the actual assault, but no Texans were killed by any of it.  Santa Anna decided after 12-13 days to just assault the position with men.

[ZINGGO]

WELL first there was no Calvary attack..second -the final assault took place at 5:00 am.....not during the day time..

[kabuto310]

lol. Victor Reznov plays as Davy Crockett.

[jermster17]

At 2:09, why would Calvary be attacking a wall?

[alonmerlin]

too corny for me :(

[TheJohnWilson2]

One of the best battle scenes of all time. I wish i could find the dvd.

[RomneyGack]

@TheJohnWilson2 Hi, neighbor, love this movie myself. You can get VHS copies on Amazon. It is possible to transfer a VHS to a DVD format. Unfortunately, no one has thought to put this movie on DVD- probably because the snobs in Hollywood don't think anyone would watch it.

[88guilly88]

This clip is cut. For one - Borgnine's face is shown in close up right after his death (eyes wide open in agony), and when Travis is shot, he turns to the camera slowly, and you can see the hole in his head before he falls to the earth. These scenes are cut from this clip.

[hill9868]

This must have been the only film about the Alamo to make money. Both the John Wayne 1960 film 'The Alamo' and the same titled version released in 2004 were commerical flops. By the way, at 03.56, when the Texan bayonets the Mexican, does he stab the Texan standing behind him as well?

[demeandr121]

@hill9868 Yes. He did friendly fire.

[soadman789]

@hill9868 and the Davy Crockett King Of The Wild Frontier last episode at the Alamo. i loved those growing up.

[hill9868]

@soadman789 People nowadays tend to forget just how hugely popular that was, it remains one of the highest-rating TV shows of all time.

[hill9868]

The attack on the Alamo in the 1960 John Wayne version was similar in its direction to this, I think Wayne must gotten a few ideas from this earlier film. However, the attack in this film, whilst not historically accurate, has much more lively directing and better visuals and the fighting here is certainly more savage and bloody than the more conservative Wayne version.

[THATSBAM]

@hill9868 it was originaly wanyes script but he wanted to direct it so he left and made his own a few years later with a similar script

[hill9868]

@THATSBAM I quite liked the Wayne version, I just found it a bit wooden and pompous. When John Ford praised it, I think he was speaking as a friend rather than as a fellow-filmmaker. I also think Wayne copied this battle scene rather too closely for his own film, in some shots it's virtually identical. 

[DavyCrockettFan1]

@hill9868 Wayne's film was supposed to be this one, but they had trouble with producers or film makers and Wayne had to leave his script behind and they made this movie while he went on to make the more popular 1960 version of The Alamo.

[agatematt]

Sterling Hayden and Richard Carlson may have gotten top billing, but the best performances by far in the fil are turned in by veteran character actors Ernest Borgnine (Mike Reardon) and Arthur Hunnicutt (Davy Crockett.)

[Sisyphus27]

Their job was also to kill Mexicans trying to desert. In the 19th century, you would not send cavalry against fortified positions. In addition, Jim Bowie, although sick, is depicted as standing up when he fights the Mexicans until he is killed. In truth, he was bedridden with illness and, according to the Wikipedia article, died in his bed. The film also depicts the women standing with the remaining defenders in the sacristy when the Mexicans storm it, which is inaccurate.

[Sisyphus27]

@Sisyphus27 Well, in regards to Bowie's death, some accounts say he died in his bed before the Mexicans reached him, but the account popularly considered most accurate is that he died fighting them with his knife and pistols, but if this is so, he most certainly fought while he was in bed.

[sgauden]

@Sisyphus27 No one really knows how Bowie died. There have been several stories. Some say he died before the Mexicans got to him, others say he died fighting from his bed with pistols and his knife, but nobody really knows. Just like with Crockett, the exact circustances of his death are still a mystery.

[Sisyphus27]

@sgauden Some said that he was tossed into the air by the Mexican soldiers and landed on their bayonets. Given the subjectivity of each person's account, what's your opinion regarding which accounts to believe?

[hill9868]

@Sisyphus27 As Walter Lord wrote in 'A Time to Stand' with regards to Bowie's death- "Whatever happened, it must have been quick". It is quite possible that he quietly expired or slipped into a coma before the Mexicans even reached his room but it is just as possible that he managed to fire his brace of pistols before dying. With all due respect to the man's courage, I doubt that, terminally ill as he was, he manage to kill four Mexicans as popularly believed but he was defiant to the last.

[Sisyphus27]

The depiction of the final battle is very inaccurate. First of all, the final assault took place at 5:30 am, and the battle was over by 6:30 am. The film depicts the final assault taking place in daylight. Secondly, the Deguello tune is incorrect. Thirdly, the cap that the defender with the sword at 1:32 (Col. Travis, I presume) doesn't appear to be an 1830s cap. Furthermore, the Mexican cavalry is depicted as taking part in the assault, but in truth their role was to kill defenders who got out.

[Zika1742]

Can you upload the whole movie???? PLEEEEEASE!!!!!!

[gcormany]

This is the best version of The Alamo ever filmed.