Drawing a line in the sand

From Disney's Davy Crockett at The Alamo

[@kenbranch5223]

The best of the Alamo movies. Fess Parker rocked

[@LATVERIAN1]

The last one to step over voiced Captain Hook in peter pan.

[@brendanforester4601]

LATVERIAN1 Hans Conried.

[@mrs3533]

LATVERIAN1 didn’t he play wrong way in Giligans island, the bad pilot?

[@dobypilgrim6160]

Wow the actor playing Lt. Col. Travis actually rather looks like the actual Jim Bowie.

[@jameshorton7496]

That's Don McGowan. Kenneth Tobey played Jim Bowie in this. And McGowan does resemble the real Bowie.

[@mikekemp9877]

not only that don who was in every western series on tv at the time was very like bowie in height and build.although portrayed by alan ladd and richard widmark bowie was a huge ferocious man similar to don or sterling hayden or james arness who also played him.in an age of tv when most of the stars were giants arness 6ft 8 ins clint walker and fess parker 6ft 6in chuck connors and eric fleming 6ft 5ins eastwood john russell 6ft 4ins as was dan blocker with jim garner and buddy ebsen at 6ft 3ins and most of the other stars over 6 foot don was a natural choice to be a convincing baddy in wagon train where he beat up wooster the rifleman gunsmoke and many others.always a good reliable character actor his 6ft 6inch frame made him a natural for such parts.

[@jonsherman9909]

Only Louis Moses Rose, a French soldier of fortune, remained behind. He escaped through enemy lines the next morning

[@jonsherman9909]

correction - he supposedly slipped out that very night

[@robertsava5442]

I would have been with him. This was a lost cause from the first day they entered this broken down mission.

[@dauntless0711]

+@@robertsava5442 except the Texans won the war because of it, so it wasn't a lost cause at all.

[@pigurine]

Figured a Frenchy would run.

[@LeftBlankIntentionally]

@@pigurine someone didnt listen in history class.... France kicked ass not even 20 years earlier, if he was a 'soldier of fortune' then he most likely fought in the napoleonic wars and had enough with fighting, and I would have been up and over that wall to, i wouldn't be brave enough to stand and fight like that.

[@Andrews_Wrestling_Life]

actually one man left when given the option the river boat captain is loosly based on the guy as he was the last to cross when in reality he grabbed his stuff and jumped over the wall

[@calebmedina2996]

AFinleyProductions yep

[@robertsava5442]

I don't remember an Indian at the Alamo and there is no George Russell. Fiction. But a good movie when I was a kid.

[@55Quirll]

Buddy Ebson brings a lot to any movie he is in.

[@karljohanlea5564]

You were there??

[@Wintermute01001]

There *is* a George Russell mentioned in Davy Crockett's autobiography. They worked together during the Creek War but everything after that is fictional.

[@jaredtaylor8083]

That's why it's funny. There never was an Indian at the Alamo nor was there a man named George Russell. That was Disney's adaptation for the Adventures of Davy Crockett.

[@jacoby3564]

No hesitation.

[@SRP3572]

I like how they included this in the movie. This did actually happen. This isnt just a hollywood cliche

[@DerekTheDuctTapeMan]

actaully there is little evidence or records that this did happen, or atleast happen this way.

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

It probably didn't. I like seeing it depicted though.

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

@@DerekTheDuctTapeMan I've heard it as who wants to leave cross the line.

[@b42baritone]

Drawing of the line never happen. Travis was ordered to leave the mission by Houston. He believed that he had a strong position to hold out until Houston and men from Goliad Col. Fannin to arrive. Never did.

[@davidpomeroy7742]

Actually according to Susannah Dickinson it did happen. She claim it did. Theres no telling if it did or not but I would like to think it did.

[@pigurine]

The last guy “ I will Follow my nose”

[@TheShgrbear]

was that last dude Dr Smith from " Lost in Space"

[@jeffsmith2022]

NO...

[@jeffsmith2022]

The actors name was Hans Conried...

[@armandogarcia1813]

Uncle Toulouse from Danny Tomas Show

[@mariraguerra34]

and true one of them did leave

[@anthonycampo6059]

If everybody jumped off the bridg would you?

[@adriangarcia543]

lot men's with raccoon hat

[@Falconlibrary]

When I was a kid, it was all the rage to wear one. Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett were our heroes.

[@mariraguerra34]

whats the name of that guy that couldnt crossover though i cant remember

[@Southernboy4ever]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Rose

[@Dragon1813]

+marira guerra Jim Bowie

[@thatiowan3581]

Jim Bowie