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The Greatest Texas Movies of All Time, the Sequel
Listen, I’ve got no beef with John Wayne. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Stagecoach, Rio Bravo, True Grit—all great movies. Admittedly, I probably haven’t seen 1960’s The Alamo since a TV was wheeled into my fourth-grade Texas history class so we could watch Wayne pretend to be Davy Crockett. Even back then—even sitting among an indulgent audience of kids who were just grateful to take a break from memorizing the state’s rivers—I didn’t find The Alamo to be particularly good. It’s just too long, too riddled with inaccuracies, too padded with corny dialogue to be a great movie. But The Alamo has one thing going for it. It admirably evokes the feel of Texas, with big, booming, cannonball-size sentiments about defiance, nobility, and self-reliance that…The post The Greatest Texas Movies of All Time, the Sequel appeared first on Texas Monthly.