Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

dunsuls-1 OK,movie executives brainstorming,what if 1 guy left the Alamo??Everyone thinks he's a coward,but he lost a lottery with fellows from the same area and had to leave to warn THEIR families of renegades in their area. Now that seems how the idea came about to make this movie ??? But dang if-in it just done works !!!!!!! I love the cast,all great from that era,headed by Glenn Ford,as the"coward"and Julie Adams as the woman who believes him.I'm sure there was a very subtle political message hidden because at the time this 1953 movie was made,the cold war was at its hight and "commies"were everywhere and courage,well,that came in short supply.What better way to dramatize that then going back to something as religious non debatable patriotic as the Alamo and yet have someone, such a coward for leaving that temple,actually be bearing news about renegades truth??? Er,or just the movie exec brainstorming,ether way its a thrilling ride with old west values and fine right vs wrong character portrayals we don't see enough of in today"gray"hero's.Well worth the view.

bsmith5552 "The Man From the Alamo" is a slick fast paced littler actioner from Director Budd Boetticher and another of those little 80 minute gems that Universal produced during the 1950s.It starts out during the siege of The Alamo in 1836. The battle scenes are quite well done in light of the small budget.A group of ranchers draws straws to see which of them will leave the battle and go home to check on their families. John Stroud (Glenn Ford) "wins" the draw. A messenger from Sam Houston, Lt. Tom Larmar (Hugh O'Brian) arrives to inform the fighters that Houston is unable to send reinforcements. Stroud is the only fighter to choose to leave and Larmar is ordered back to Houston by Col. Travis.When Stroud reaches the ranches, he discovers them burned and the families murdered. He find out that it was not the Mexicans who were responsible but a gang of pro Mexican Americans led by Jess Wade (Victor Jory) who were responsible. He then goes to the town of Franklin where he learns that The Alamo has fallen and all have been killed. He also learns that the town has branded him a coward for "deserting" the fighting and want to string him up when Lt. Larmar, who is assigned to escort the wagons, accuses him of cowardice.Town elder John Gage (Chill Wills) plans to lead a wagon train of women and children away from Franklin when Houston warns them of an impending attack by Wade and his renegades. Stroud is jailed for his own protection and by chance is put in the same cell of one of Wade's henchmen (Neville Brand). The men manage to escape during Wade's raid on the town and Stroud joins Wade's gang to obtain his revenge.Before Wade and his men can attack the wagon train, Stroud manages to warn them and escape Wade to the wagons. Lt. Larmar, still thinking Stroud a coward, places him under arrest. Beth Anders (Julie Adams) begins to sympathize with Stroud, believing him to be innocent. Eventually Larmar comes to believe in his innocence as well.Before the wagon train can cross a river to safety, Larmer and his men are recalled by Sam Houston and leave the wagons unprotected. Stroud volunteers to lead the wagons. But as they are about to cross the river, Wade and his men attack and..............................Glenn Ford as always, is better than his material. As the beleaguered Stroud, he steals the picture. Adams is a stock western heroine who comes to love the hero. Wills has little to do as the one-armed Gage and Jory, who is wasted here, looks ridiculous in his outlandish costume. Others in the cast include Trevor Bardette as Davy Crockett, Dennis Weaver as one of his men and Stuart Randall as Jim Bowie.An excellent "B" Plus western.

funkyfry Glenn Ford plays the only survivor of the Alamo -- not a very popular man in Texas. Of course, the story gives him a good excuse -- he drew lots with some other Alamo soldiers to see who would go west to defend their homes from Texan bandits hired by the Mexicans, but the families were already dead when he gets there -- but nobody wants to believe him, except one lovely woman on the wagon train he sets out to defend. Only problem is his strategy of siding with the bandits to get into their confidence puts him in a nearly impossible situation.A well-made film, with convincing action and gritty characters. Unlike other Boetticher westerns, here the scale of the film is "epic" as the future of the West hangs in the balance. Ford makes a surprisingly good substitute for Randolph Scott or John Wayne.

paulo BH During the war of independence of Texas, a group of five men of the city of Oxbow chooses, for a raffle, who would leave the fort Alamo to save the families of all them of the Mexican troops. Stroud is the chosen, but is considered a coward by the other men of the fort, that don't know about the real reason of his escape.However, when arriving to his home, his family and the one of all his companions had been killed by American renegades, that struggled beside of the Mexicans. Now, is the hour of the his revenge! But how to face the hostility of all the Texans that considered him a coward for fleeing of the Alamo?Happily, his heroic behavior due to the adversities, as when leading a caravan of Texans before an attack of the renegades, will show to his compatriots him real value!Good film, with good interpretations. An excellent western for a Saturday afternoon.