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Post by sloanrodgers on Mar 3, 2011 22:24:32 GMT -5
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Post by tjking on Mar 6, 2011 20:22:44 GMT -5
Just watched "Martyrs of the Alamo" 1915 last night. It can be found here: www.classiccinemaonline.com/1/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=561:the-martyrs-of-the-alamo-1915&catid=97:historical&Itemid=769Its not bad. When the man introduces the film and compares racial characterizations in the movie to be akin to Birth of a Nation, I don't see that in this movie. They do characterize a lot of soldiers harassing Anglo women as well as Mexican women, and a lot of drunk Mexican soldiers, but I'm not sure if the comparison he makes is legit. Funny scene when they show the "secret passage" to the Alamo, being discovered. I expected Pee Wee Herman to pop out. Deaf Smith is called Silent Smith and plays a major role. |
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Mar 6, 2011 21:34:12 GMT -5
Interesting film. I quite enjoyed it. Thanks for posting the link here.
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Post by g2smythson on Mar 10, 2011 17:09:19 GMT -5
What I love is the recreation of the Convention of 1836 in Martyrs of the Alamo.
Sam Houston, like Moses, gives the delegates (wearing the ubiquitous coon skinned cap and looking like they are in an opium den) the Texas Declaration of Independence. Gen Sam formed the gov'mt all by his lonesome and handed it to the ages...!
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Post by sloanrodgers on Mar 21, 2011 23:25:51 GMT -5
Interesting film. I quite enjoyed it. Thanks for posting the link here. Yes, indeed, but was it really the first Alamo film? There was some kind of historical production in 1907, apparently called: Jim Bowie and David Crocket, The Heroes of the Alamo, which included a grand parade after the show. I'm sure some Alamo experts can track this thing down. |
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Post by sloanrodgers on Mar 24, 2011 17:49:17 GMT -5
The show above was produced by a guy named Bob(b)y Fountain, but it might only be a play.
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Post by sloanrodgers on Mar 29, 2011 20:21:08 GMT -5
Another actor named French (W.B. French) played Crockett in John Waldron's 1890s historical play, The Siege of the Alamo in Waco, Texas, but this might be common knowledge
among some people. Waldron played Jim Bowie and Mrs. W. B. French was Ella Bowie, who was apparently supposed to be Bowie's wife.
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Post by Rich Curilla on Apr 5, 2011 1:07:41 GMT -5
This is the 100th anniversary of the first Alamo movie, The Immortal Alamo (1911)..... starred Francis Ford (elder brother of the legendary John Ford) as Davy Crockett. Allen Frank Thompson later discovered that Francis Ford did not portray Davy Crockett in The Immortal Alamo. He actually played a villain, a Mexican spy named Navarre. Up until then, pictures of Crockett (even in Franks Alamo Movies) were captioned Francis Ford. |
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Post by Allen Wiener on Apr 5, 2011 7:24:51 GMT -5
Just goes to show how nothing in history (including film history) is ever final.
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Post by Rich Curilla on Apr 5, 2011 17:42:10 GMT -5
Just goes to show how nothing in history (including film history) is ever final. Tis truly spoken. Was it J. Frank Dobie who said, "History is something agreed to by two liars?" One stands before you! (Actually, sits before a PC screen.) |
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Post by Allen Wiener on Apr 5, 2011 20:45:56 GMT -5
History can be a slippery eel, for sure!
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