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Title: My Favorite Alamo Film
Review: Probably the best film ever made about the Alamo. This one is with Jim Bowie as the central character, and Sterling Hayden is terrific in this best-of-his-career role as Bowie. His confrontation and knife fight with Ernest Borgnine near the beginning of the film is a classic. Richard Carlson is serviceable as Travis, and Arthur Hunnicut is a loveable, folksy Davy Crockett. Good battle scenes and action sequences. J. Carol Naish is a great Santa Anna. I never get tired of seeing this film. It deserves a DVD release. All in all, a better movie than John Wayne's version and a more satisfyingly dramatic piece than the 2004 movie version. Memorable is a great special effects shot of Hayden throwing his knife into a menacing Mexican soldier's side during a pre-siege sequence.
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