Editing The Alamo (2004)

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'''''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318974/ The Alamo] (2004)'''''

Director: John Lee Hancock

==Summary==
In 1836 Gen. Sam Houston ([[Dennis Quaid]]) organizes a rebel army to liberate Texas from the brutal rule of Mexican dictator General Santa Anna ([[Emilio Echevarría]]). Though vastly outnumbered, Gen. Houston's volunteer army includes such folkloric figures as Jim Bowie ([[Jason Patric]]) and Davy Crockett ([[Billy Bob Thornton]]). As Santa Anna's forces advance on San Antonio, the legendary general and his men prepare for a final heroic standoff at a battle-worn mission called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_Mission_in_San_Antonio the Alamo].

==Trivia==
#Feature film debut of [[Patrick Wilson]]
#All the actors and extras playing the Alamo defenders were assigned actual names of the defenders killed in battle.
#Several of the extras in the movie were actual descendants of the defenders of the Alamo or people who took part in the Texas Revolution.
#[[Billy Bob Thornton]] learned to play the violin for some scenes that required it.

==Male Deaths==
*[[Aidan Black]] [Jackson Rusk] 
*[[Marc Blucas]] [James Bonham]
*[[Stephen Bruton]] [Captain Almeron Dickinson]
*[[Ricardo Chavira]] [Private Gregorio Esparza]
*[[Michael Clossin]] [Tennessean #1]
*[[Tom Davidson]] [Maj. Green Jameson]
*[[Craig Erickson]] [Tom Waters]
*[[Jett Garner]] [Grey #2]
*[[Charles E. Gray]] [Alamo Defender]
*[[Castulo Guerra]] [General Castrillon]
*[[Nick Kokich]] [Daniel Cloud]
*[[Frank Matthews]] [Joseph M. Hawkins]
*[[Richard Nance]] [Grey #1]
*[[Kevin Page]] [Micajah Autry]
*[[Jason Patric]] [James Bowie]
*[[Robert C. Pemelton]] [Texas Soldier]
*[[Robert Prentiss]] [Albert Grimes]
*[[Steven Chester Prince]] [Lieutenant John Forsythe]
*[[Turk Pipkin]] [Issac Millsaps] 
*[[Leon Rippy]] [Sgt. William Ward]
*[[Joe Stevens]] [Mial Scurlock]
*[[Billy Bob Thornton]] [Davy Crockett]
*[[Clint Tidwell]] [Texan Defender]
*[[Patrick Wilson]] [William Travis]
*[[Tony Wolford]] [Crockett's Group of Men]
*[[Mauricio Zatarain]] [Colonel Jose Batres]

==Female Deaths==
*[[Safia Gray]] [Ursula Veramendi]

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