The Alamo (2004 film) waiting for two weeks for what they expect to be certain death, and it somehow succeeds in taking those pop-culture brand names like Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie and giving them human form." He gave the film 3 and a half stars out of 4. The film was a massive box office flop. First weekend earnings were only US$9.1 million, and its opening was overshadowed by a resurgent "The Passion of the Christ". The film ended with $22.4 million in the domestic market (United States and Canada), and only $25.8 million in total on a $107 million budget. "The Alamo"
John Wayne (1949), "The Quiet Man" (1952), "The Wings of Eagles" (1957), and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962) with James Stewart. The first movie in which he called someone "Pilgrim," Ford's "The Searchers" (1956), is often considered to contain Wayne's finest and most complex performance. Wayne was nominated as the producer of Best Picture for "The Alamo" (1960), one of two films he directed. The other was "The Green Berets" (1968), the only major film made during the Vietnam War in support of the war. During the filming of "The Green Berets", the Degar or Montagnard people of Vietnam's Central