Heroes of the Alamo Heroes of the Alamo Heroes of the Alamo (1937) is a low-budget retelling of the events of the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo. It was produced by Anthony J. Xydias and reuses the battle scenes of his 1926 silent film "Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo". About 35 minutes of the latter film is available on the DVD of "Heroes of the Alamo", all that remains of the silent film. Unlike other Alamo films that concentrate on Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, the main protagonists are Almaron (Bruce Warren) and Susanna Dickinson (Ruth Findlay) and
Linda Cristal taking on her first English-language role as Margarita in the 1956 Western film "Comanche". Following her Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year in "The Perfect Furlough" (1958), Cristal went on to roles in "Cry Tough" (1959), "Legions of the Nile" (1959), "The Pharaohs' Woman" (1960), and was asked by John Wayne to play the part of Flaca in his epic "The Alamo" (1960). In 1961 she had a key role in the western "Two Rode Together". Along with these and other film roles, Cristal appeared in episodes of network television series. She played a kidnapped Countess opposite