Word: alamo
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...Alamo...
...Having just seen John Wayne's The Alamo, I was amazed to read your hatchet job in your Nov. 7 issue. The review, which found fault with everything except the institution of John Wayne himself, was filled with distortions and evidenced a deliberately hostile reviewer ("the picture was as flat as Texas"). No mention was made that the picture has a patriotic theme showing how diverse and often feuding men banded together with the common purpose of fighting for liberty...
...case of The Alamo, forever is almost attained in one projection; the film runs three hours and 38 minutes, including an intermission. The first three hours, moreover, are as flat as Texas. Plenty happens: a seduction, an orgy, a murder, a battle royal in a barroom. But it all seems to have happened before, in some other John Wayne western, and in any case most of the action has nothing to do with the Alamo...
...much of the dialogue ("Yuh doan git lard less'n yuh boil the hawg"), and worst of all is the teary sentiment that blears every other frame of the film and wallows to a climax of blubbering bathos when a little girl, as the carnage at the Alamo concludes, turns to her mother and piteously inquires: "Mummy, where's Daddy...
...meandering, crowd-rousing talk, told the people how the Democratic party was the party of "all the people," how the Democrats were going to insure that "all Americans will enjoy the blessings of liberty--regardless of race, creed or color," how three Massachusetts boys had died at the Alamo, how no one had asked Captain Joe Kennedy and Wilfred Wylie from Fort Worth what church they attended when they went out to die "so that all of us could be free," and what a pleasure it was "to stand beside, to stand with, to stand behind, that great and dynamic...