

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
Acting
Thornton's Crockett is weird, wonderful, and tragically human.
Practical Effects
Full-scale Alamo replica — they built it to burn it down.

Director
John Lee Hancock
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thornton learned fiddle for six months; the 'Orange Blossom Special' scene is actually him playing.
The film deliberately humanizes Mexican forces after decades of Hollywood treating them as faceless villains — Emilio Echevarría's Santa Anna has actual scenes.
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