The Alamo (1960 film) of the former Alamo Mission. The set was an extensive three quarter-scale replica of the mission, and has since been used in 100 other westerns, including other depictions of the battle. It took more than two years to construct. Wayne was to have portrayed Sam Houston, a bit part that would have let him focus on his first major directing effort, but investors insisted he play a leading character. He took on the role of Davy Crockett, handing the part of Houston to Richard Boone. Wayne cast Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William Barrett Travis. Harvey
Inherit the Wind (1960 film) referring to it as "a film that rebukes the past when it might also have feared the future". , the website Rotten Tomatoes had given the film a 92% approval rating, based on 24 reviews with an average rating of 8/10. Academy Awards "Inherit the Wind" was nominated for four Academy Awards. BAFTA Berlin International Film Festival Golden Globes Inherit the Wind (1960 film) Inherit the Wind is a 1960 Hollywood film adaptation of the 1955 play of the same name, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, directed by Stanley Kramer. It stars Spencer Tracy as lawyer Henry