The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory television miniseries) — it focuses on Bowie as the main character rather than Crockett. The production was shot at Alamo Village, the Alamo replica built by John Wayne for his lavish 1960 film "The Alamo". Much of the footage of the final battle scene was recycled from earlier films. The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory (1987) is a made-for-TV film about the 1836 Battle of the Alamo written and directed by Burt Kennedy, starring James Arness as James Bowie, Brian Keith as Davy Crockett, Alec Baldwin as William Barrett Travis, Raul Julia as Antonio
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