BRACKETTVILLE, Texas Time and Mother Nature are threatening to dismantle the Alamo. Not the original, but the replica 18th-century Spanish mission and Old West movie set John Wayne built for his Oscar ...
Hollywood icon John Wayne didn’t just star in the 1960 epic “The Alamo.” He produced it, directed it, starred in it and paid for a healthy chunk of it out of his own pocket. He then promoted the heck ...
While many movie fans don't like remakes, the Western genre has several great remakes that equals, or even surpasses, the ...
By no means a remake of Wayne’s histrionic chronicle—“there was hardly a line of historically accurate dialogue in it,” says North Carolina State University historian James E. Crisp—the new, $90 ...
The Duke would often cut ties with people who wronged him, including one man who blocked him from making his dream movie.