The Alamo (2004 film) to withdraw from Texas and to accept Texan independence, despite the Texans wanting to hang him as revenge for the Alamo. The last scene in the movie shows the spirit of Crockett playing his fiddle on the top of the Alamo and then looking out on the horizon. The film was originally conceived by Imagine Entertainment, with Ron Howard in the director's chair and partner Brian Grazer as producer. Russell Crowe was originally cast as Sam Houston, Ethan Hawke as William Barret Travis and Billy Bob Thornton as David Crockett. But there were financial and creative disagreements between Imagine and
The Immortal Alamo she deserved a better and less crude setting than she received — and so did her subject." The June 1911 issue of "The Motion Picture Story Magazine" included an adapted story written by John Eldridge Chandos from the scenario written by Wilbert Melville. No known copies of the film exist today, and it is considered to be a lost film. Several movie stills of the film survived The Immortal Alamo The Immortal Alamo is an American silent film released on May 25, 1911. "The Immortal Alamo" is the earliest film version of the events surrounding the 1836 Battle of the