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The Alamo [WS]
Director: John Lee Hancock Cast: Dennis Quaid , Billy Bob Thornton , Jason Patric , Patrick Wilson , Leon Rippy
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(Wide Screen)
$9.99
- Release Date: 01/16/2007
- UPC: 0786936229035
- Original Release: 2004
- Rating: PG-13
- Source: Walt Disney Video
- Region Code: 1
- Presentation: [Wide Screen]
- Sound: [Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, THX-Supervised Mastering]
- Language: English
- Runtime: 8220
- Sales rank: 93
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Bonus Features
Return of the Legend: The Making of the Alamo
Deep in the Heart of Texans
Walking in the Footsteps of Heroes
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The Retreat From Bexar
Batres Meets Tejana
A Wedding Plan
Santa Anna Marries
A Mexican Candle Dance
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English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
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Captions: English for the Hearing Impaired
Subtitles: Spanish
Subtitles: French
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"John Lee Hancock directs Billy Bob Thornton, Dennis Quaid, and Jason Patric in this epic retelling of the 1836 siege of the Alamo from Disney. The film details the events surrounding the battle during the Texan War of Independence that left 186 Texas reb
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- The Alamo [WS]
- Director: Dennis Quaid
One of American history's most colorful (and increasingly controversial) episodes is dramatized on the big screen yet again in this lavishly appointed epic, which combines fact and fiction in a genuinely engaging manner. The year is 1836, and American-born settlers in Mexican-controlled Texas stage a revolt against military dictator Santa Anna (Emilio Echevarria). Holed up in an old Spanish mission outside San Antonio, squabbling Texans Jim Bowie (Jason Patric) and William Travis (Patrick Wilson) are joined by legendary frontiersman Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton) and a small band of fortune-seeking Tennesseans, only to be outnumbered and besieged by an army of thousands, while awaiting reinforcements lead by General Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid). Director John Lee Hancock (The Rookie), perhaps overly encumbered by the script's wealth of factual material, doesn't always maintain a strict timeline in depicting the 13-day siege. The complexities of the Texan-Mexican quarrel are never really addressed, and key historical figures -- such as Stephen Austin -- are either given short shrift or ignored altogether. But the Battle of the Alamo is vividly staged and incorporates both recently discovered facts and hotly contested suppositions -- among them the belief that Davy Crockett survived the battle. At times The Alamo is confusing, mostly due to choppy editing and inadequately elucidated motivations, but on balance it's a rousing historical drama depicting an event that even today continues to have surprising relevance to Americans.