Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Hitchcoc What a phenomenon for the time. I was in second grade and we watched these episodes faithfully. I didn't know much about Congress or the Alamo, but I got a taste of each watching this. But it was only three half hour episodes. Kids all over had coonskin caps (the crappy ones with the plastic tops, not like Davy's). There were lunch boxes and pencils and all the usual stuff. I remember a knife with a leather sheath. But it was only three episodes. Fess Parker became a god to us and Buddy Epson (Jed Clampett on Beverly Hillbilles) was his sidekick. In one episode he fought the Indians, the next he went to Congress, and, of course, died at the Alamo, fighting the Mexicans. And, finally, there was that song. Everyone knew a "bar" was a bear, and so on. The production value was OK. If something was this hot today, there would have been a whole TV series. Come to think of it, Fess reprised the character as Daniel Boone. Good stuff.

George Redding I remember the summer of 1955 when this movie was THE movie of that summer, and when I felt it was a must to have a rabbit-skin cap and a Davy Crockett suit, all of which my mother bought me, and it was all because of the influence of that unforgettable movie. As much as I liked it, and as much as I play it now on my own video tape of it, it was definitely not your typical Walt Disney movie, like "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs", and "Pollyanna"; the latter came along later. (Who would have ever connected Kenneth Tobey, who portrayed Jim Bowie, with a Disney movie, or Helene Stanley, who played the small role of Davy's wife Polly, since she was a lady who did often play not-so-nice girls?) Basil Ruysdael performed well the role of the then pre-president Andrew Jackson, and in these his pre-"Beverley Hillbillies" days, Buddy Ebsen was excellent as Crockett's sometimes-comical sidekick George Russell, and the large Don MacGowan was convincing as Colonel Travis the second-in-command to Bowie. Hans Conreid did a good turn as the shifty riverboat gambler, who perhaps surprisingly was very brave at the Alamo. Nobody else could have played Crockett as well as did the large Fess Parker; Crockett was a sometimes-rough man, but always good-hearted and honest. The movie followed well the man's life, all the way from his resolving the Creek Indian wars in 1814, to Davy's term in Congress where the man with butchered English expressed himself articulately and bravely his negative feeling about the Indian Bill when expansion was on everyone's minds, then to the battle at the Alamo in 1836. Again, some of the actors were rough and brave, and the fighting Mexicans at the Alamo were as mean as they could be. What also stood out to me was the song toward the end entitled "Farewell", which was soothing and beautiful in its own right. Definitely, an outstanding production.

wuxmup I'm rating this review not as myself, today, but as the six-year old kid who watched it in three installments on TV's "Disneyland" show in 1954-55.First of all, it's the longer TV version you need to see. The version released to theaters is too condensed and moves much too quickly. But when it comes to Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen, anything is better than nothing.Parker played supporting roles in a few other movies and later played "Daniel Boone" on NBC for several seasons, but in "Davy Crockett" he delivered his best work by far - a wonderfully warm and believable portrayal of an idealized American hero. Parker's Davy fights for right - settlers' rights, Indians' rights, freedom from tyranny in Texas. His motto is "Be sure your right, then go ahead." Be *sure* you're right: that admits the possibility you could be dead wrong unless you think carefully about what you stand for. In fact, without reflection, you don't really know if it's the other guy who's right. The Disney Crockett's insistence on the unreliability of simple gut feelings may make him the most philosophical "western" hero on film. But when you're sure, you go ahead and do the right thing as you see it. You don't shrug your shoulders and measure personal inconvenience. Davy doesn't want to leave his family to fight Indians, but he does want to help protect settlers in Mississippi from a repeat of the Ft. Mims massacre (a genuine historical event). In this fantasy take on history, Davy ends the Creek War almost single handedly through a combination of physical courage, man-to-man fighting skills, and the kind of diplomacy that recognizes the common humanity of his adversaries. In Congress, Davy stands up to the System to defend the rights of Indians and white settlers alike in West Tennessee. At the Alamo, he sacrifices himself for Texas independence.Parker is far more appealing as Crockett than is John Wayne in ""The Alamo" a few years later, though I do agree with another reviewer who praises Billy Bob Thornton as being a little closer to the historical Crockett.This is one of Disney's greatest film achievements - almost certainly their finest live-action movie. I could go on, but you get the idea. If you're a kid of any age "from 8 to 80" you'll enjoy "Davy Crockett." If you're young enough, you may just come away with a new hero worthy of the name.

elskootero I first saw this movie, over the 3 Sunday nights it ran on THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR, as The Disney show was then called, and fell head over heels with the character of Davy. He was so honest and good to my 5 year old mind and now, 50 (50!?!?!?) years later, I still admire the man and all he stood for. I was living in San Antonio, TX, at the time these 3 shorts came out, so I had my parents take me to the Alamo after the last installment and today I own a model 1816 Flintlock musket that was carried by a Mexican soldier in the second wave of the morning assault of March 6, 1836. The soldier; Eduardo Escalon's Great-Grandson furnished me written provenance from his Grandmother, who died in 1924, that her father had carried this particular rifle in the assault, and when he mustered out of the army after San Jacinto, he brought it with him when he emigrated to the US (Texas, of course), in 1838, and documents the history of the weapon during the battle, and it is in Fine shape for a rifle that's 179 years old and is still very accurate, though only for maybe 5- to 75 yards. And the tie-in to this film is obvious, and yes, I sometimes sit with the rifle in my hands when I watch the now DVD that just came out and think about the history of the whole scene.