The Alamo (1960 film) The Alamo (1960 film) The Alamo is a 1960 American historical epic war film about the 1836 Battle of the Alamo produced and directed by John Wayne and starring Wayne as Davy Crockett. The picture also stars Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William B. Travis, and the supporting cast features Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joan O'Brien, Chill Wills, Joseph Calleia, Ken Curtis, Ruben Padilla as Santa Anna, and guest star Richard Boone as Sam Houston. The motion picture was photographed in 70 mm Todd-AO by William H. Clothier and released by United Artists. The
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