Jim Bowie Knife Fight - The Last Command (USA 1955)

The Last Command (USA 1955)
Directed by Frank Lloyd
stars Sterling Hayden as Jim Bowie
Knife Fight Scene between Jim Bowie
and Mike "The Bull" Radin (Ernest Borgnine)
Tip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4K5DvnhDCg

The Last Command is a 1955 Trucolor film about Jim Bowie and the fall of the Alamo during the Texas War of Independence. Filmed by Republic Pictures, it was an unusually expensive undertaking for the low-budget studio.
The film was originally set to be produced and directed by John Wayne but Wayne and Republic Pictures head Herbert Yates wanted Wayne to star, not produce or direct. Wayne left Republic to form Wayne-Fellows Productions. Five years later, Wayne would play Davy Crockett in, as well as direct, the three-hours-plus Todd-AO blockbuster The Alamo, released by United Artists that featured many elements of The Last Command in its screenplay.

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[cha5]

Hell of a film, but the Jim Bowie knife fights that were recorded by history were alot bloodier than anything you saw on film in the 1950s or 1960s.

In one fight three men who were hired to kill Bowie ambushed him and were then killed by him, one man was disemboweled, the other had his skull split open, and the third man was nearly decapitated.

[manyflga]

Great movie and for me one of the best Alamo fight scenes.

[TuhonBillMcg]

I wasn't familiar with this film. Thanks for posting this.