The Alamo (1960 film) of the former Alamo Mission. The set was an extensive three quarter-scale replica of the mission, and has since been used in 100 other westerns, including other depictions of the battle. It took more than two years to construct. Wayne was to have portrayed Sam Houston, a bit part that would have let him focus on his first major directing effort, but investors insisted he play a leading character. He took on the role of Davy Crockett, handing the part of Houston to Richard Boone. Wayne cast Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William Barrett Travis. Harvey
Bowie knife Bowie "The Iron Mistress" and "The Adventures of Jim Bowie" television series of the 1950s. At the end of John Ford's film "The Searchers" (1958), John Wayne's character Ethan Edwards uses a Bowie knife to scalp the Comanche Indian chief 'Scar' he has been hunting throughout the film. The Bowie knife was a staple in "The Alamo" movies of 1960 and 2004; the first three Rambo movies, "First Blood" (1982), "" (1985), and "Rambo III" (1988); the Crocodile Dundee films, "Crocodile Dundee" (1986) and "Crocodile Dundee II" (1988), and "Friday the 13th" (1980). The famous musician David Bowie (born David