Hollywood icon John Wayne didn’t just star in the 1960 epic “The Alamo.” He produced it, directed it, starred in it and paid for a healthy chunk of it out of his own pocket. He then promoted the heck ...

John Wayne remains one of Hollywood's most iconic Western stars, but it is often hard to find where to stream all his best movies at any given time.

By the time "The Alamo" made its world premiere 65 years ago at the Woodlawn Theatre on Fredericksburg Road, the city had already been celebrating John Wayne's $12 million epic. The film's ...

With the release this month of the new movie The Alamo, filmgoers far too young to remember the 1960 epic, an outsize drama showcasing Wayne as the bold frontiersman Crockett—or actor Fess Parker’s ...

SAN ANTONIO -- When he first toured the Alamo as an awestruck kid, John Lee Hancock never dreamed he'd be fighting his own Alamo battles one day. But that's what he's doing as director and co-writer ...

Hoping to create a diversion for Santa Anna's forces, Gen. Sam Houston (Richard Boone) orders Col. William B. Travis (Laurence Harvey), joined by Cols. Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) and Davy Crockett ...

The film’s star-studded debut on Oct. 24, 1960, was the culmination of a three-day celebration that included a river parade, concert, numerous receptions and an outdoor dance featuring a 30-foot Alamo ...