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The Last Command (1955 film)

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The Last Command is a 1955 American Western film directed by Frank Lloyd starring Sterling Hayden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Richard Carlson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Ernest Borgnine and J. Carrol Naish based on the life of Jim Bowie and the Battle of the Alamo. [1]

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  1. 61 relations: Allen Rivkin, Almaron Dickinson, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Arthur Hunnicutt, Battle of the Alamo, Ben Cooper, Bugle call, Bullfighter and the Lady, Charles Stevens (actor), Cholera, Davy Crockett, Eduard Franz, El Degüello, Ernest Borgnine, Film poster, Fort Clark, Texas, Frank Lloyd, Gordon MacRae, Grandiose delusions, Grass Fight, Herbert J. Yates, Hugh Sanders, J. Carrol Naish, Jack Marta, James Bowie, James Edward Grant, Jim Davis (actor), John Russell (actor), Juan Almonte, Ken Terrell, Max Steiner, No quarter, Oklahoma! (1955 film), Otto Kruger, Republic Pictures, Richard Carlson (actor), Rodgers and Hammerstein, Roy Roberts, Russell Simpson (actor), Sam Houston, San Antonio, Slim Pickens, Stephen F. Austin, Sterling Hayden, Sy Bartlett, Texas Revolution, Texian Army, Texians, The Alamo (1960 film), ... Expand index (11 more) »

  2. Cultural depictions of Davy Crockett
  3. Cultural depictions of James Bowie
  4. Films set in 1835
  5. Films set in 1836
  6. Texas Revolution films
  7. Works about the Battle of the Alamo

Allen Rivkin

Allen Rivkin (20 November 1903 – 17 February 1990) was an American screenwriter.

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Almaron Dickinson

Almaron Dickinson (1800 – March 6, 1836) was a Texian soldier and defender during the Battle of the Alamo, fought during the Texas Revolution.

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Anna Maria Alberghetti

Anna Maria Alberghetti (born May 15, 1936) is an Italian-American actress and soprano.

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Antonio López de Santa Anna

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, usually known as Antonio López de Santa Anna (21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876),Callcott, Wilfred H., "Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez De,", Retrieved 18 April 2017.

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Arthur Hunnicutt

Arthur Lee Hunnicutt (February 17, 1910 – September 26, 1979) was an American actor known for his portrayal of old, wise, grizzled rural characters.

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Battle of the Alamo

The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event and military engagement in the Texas Revolution.

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Ben Cooper

Ben Cooper (September 30, 1933 – February 24, 2020) was an American actor of film and television who won a Golden Boot Award in 2005 for his work in Westerns.

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Bugle call

A bugle call is a short tune, originating as a military signal announcing scheduled and certain non-scheduled events on a military installation, battlefield, or ship.

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Bullfighter and the Lady

Bullfighter and the Lady is a 1951 drama romance sport film directed and written by Budd Boetticher starring Robert Stack, Joy Page and Gilbert Roland. The Last Command (1955 film) and Bullfighter and the Lady are Republic Pictures films.

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Charles Stevens (actor)

Charles Stevens (May 26, 1893 – August 22, 1964) was an American actor.

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Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

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Davy Crockett

David Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was an American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician.

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Eduard Franz

Eduard Franz Schmidt (October 31, 1902 – February 10, 1983) was an American actor of theatre, film and television.

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El Degüello

El degüello (Spanish: El toque a degüello) is a bugle call, notable in the United States for its use as a march by Mexican Army buglers during the 1836 Siege and Battle of the Alamo to signal that the defenders of the garrison would receive no quarter by the attacking Mexican Army under General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

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Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades.

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Film poster

A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film primarily to persuade paying customers into a theater to see it.

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Fort Clark, Texas

Fort Clark was a frontier fort located just off U.S. Route 90 near Brackettville, in Kinney County, Texas, United States.

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Frank Lloyd

Frank William George Lloyd (2 February 1886 – 10 August 1960) was a Scottish-American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.

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Gordon MacRae

Albert Gordon MacRae (March 12, 1921 – January 24, 1986) was an American actor, singer, and television and radio host.

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Grandiose delusions

Grandiose delusions (GDs), also known as delusions of grandeur or expansive delusions, are a subtype of delusion characterized by extraordinary belief that one is famous, omnipotent, wealthy, or otherwise very powerful.

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Grass Fight

The Grass Fight was a small battle during the Texas Revolution, fought between the Mexican Army and the Texian Army.

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Herbert J. Yates

Herbert John Yates (August 24, 1880 – February 3, 1966), a Hollywood mini-mogul, was the founder and President of Republic Pictures.

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Hugh Sanders

Hugh Sanders (born Howard William Sanders;"California, County Marriages, 1850-1953",, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8D1-6LP: Thu Oct 19 16:41:02 UTC 2023), Entry for Hugh Howard William Sanders and Janet Berenice Putnam, 3 Jun 1952. March 13, 1911 – January 9, 1966) was an American actor, probably best known for playing the role of Dr.

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J. Carrol Naish

Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish (January 21, 1896 – January 24, 1973) was an American actor.

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Jack Marta

Jack A. Marta (March 5, 1903 – June 26, 1991) was an American cinematographer who was active in hundreds of movies throughout his life.

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James Bowie

James Bowie (April 10, 1796 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American pioneer, slave smuggler and trader, and soldier who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution.

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James Edward Grant

James Edward Grant (July 2, 1905 – February 19, 1966) was an American short story writer, screenwriter and film director, who contributed to more than fifty films between 1935 and 1971.

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Jim Davis (actor)

Jim Davis (born Marlin Davis; August 26, 1909 – April 26, 1981) was an American actor, best known for his roles in television Westerns.

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John Russell (actor)

John Lawrence Russell (January 3, 1921 – January 19, 1991) was an American film and television actor, most noted for his starring role as Marshal Dan Troop in the ABC Western television series Lawman from 1958 to 1962 and his lead role as international adventurer Tim Kelly in the syndicated TV series Soldiers of Fortune from 1955 to 1957.

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Juan Almonte

Juan Nepomuceno Almonte Ramírez (May 15, 1803 – March 21, 1869) was a Mexican soldier, commander, minister of war, congressman, diplomat, presidential candidate, and regent.

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Ken Terrell

Kenneth Jones Terrell (April 29, 1904 – March 8, 1966) was an American western and action film actor and stuntman best known for playing Joe Marcelli in the 1956 film Indestructible Man and Jess in the 1958 film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.

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Max Steiner

Maximilian Raoul Steiner (10 May 1888 – 28 December 1971) was an Austrian composer and conductor who emigrated to America and became one of Hollywood's greatest musical composers.

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No quarter

No quarter, during military conflict, implies that combatants would not be taken prisoner, but killed.

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Oklahoma! (1955 film)

Oklahoma! is a 1955 American musical film based on the 1943 musical of the same name by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, which in turn was based on the 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs written by Lynn Riggs. It stars Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones (in her film debut), Rod Steiger, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, James Whitmore, and Eddie Albert. The Last Command (1955 film) and Oklahoma! (1955 film) are 1955 films.

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Otto Kruger

Otto Kruger (September 6, 1885 – September 6, 1974) was an American actor, originally a Broadway matinee idol, who established a niche as a charming villain in films, such as Hitchcock's Saboteur.

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Republic Pictures

Republic Pictures Corporation (currently held under Melange Pictures, LLC) was an American film studio corporation that originally operated from 1935 to 1967, based in Los Angeles, California. The Last Command (1955 film) and Republic Pictures are Republic Pictures films.

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Richard Carlson (actor)

Richard Dutoit Carlson (April 29, 1912 – November 25, 1977) was an American actor, television and film director, and screenwriter.

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Rodgers and Hammerstein

Rodgers and Hammerstein was a theater-writing team of composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together created a series of innovative and influential American musicals.

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Roy Roberts

Roy Roberts (born Roy Barnes Jones; March 19, 1906 – May 28, 1975) was an American character actor.

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Russell Simpson (actor)

Russell McCaskill Simpson (June 17, 1880 – December 12, 1959) was an American character actor.

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Sam Houston

Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.

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Slim Pickens

Louis Burton Lindley Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), better known by his stage name Slim Pickens, was an American actor and rodeo performer.

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Stephen F. Austin

Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American-born empresario.

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Sterling Hayden

Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor, author, sailor, model and Marine.

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Sy Bartlett

Sidney "Sy" Bartlett (July 10, 1900 – May 29, 1978) was a Ukrainian American author and screenwriter and producer of Hollywood films.

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Texas Revolution

The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Hispanic Texans) against the centralist government of Mexico in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas.

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Texian Army

The Texian Army, also known as the Revolutionary Army and Army of the People, was the land warfare branch of the Texian armed forces during the Texas Revolution.

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Texians

Texians were Anglo-American residents of Mexican Texas and, later, the Republic of Texas.

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The Alamo (1960 film)

The Alamo is a 1960 American epic historical war film about the 1836 Siege and Battle of the Alamo produced and directed by John Wayne and starring Wayne as Davy Crockett. The Last Command (1955 film) and the Alamo (1960 film) are Cultural depictions of Davy Crockett, Cultural depictions of James Bowie, films set in 1836, Siege films, Texas Revolution films and works about the Battle of the Alamo.

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The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man is a 1952 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and produced by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, and Ward Bond. The Last Command (1955 film) and The Quiet Man are Republic Pictures films.

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Todd-AO

Todd-AO is an American post-production company founded in 1953 by Mike Todd and Robert Naify, providing sound-related services to the motion picture and television industries.

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Tony Martinelli

Tony Martinelli (November 26, 1909 – August 15, 1996) was an American film editor who worked prolifically in American film and television for several decades.

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Trucolor

Trucolor was a color motion picture process used and owned by the Consolidated Film Industries division of Republic Pictures.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.

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Virginia Grey

Virginia Grey (March 22, 1917 – July 31, 2004) was an American actress who appeared in more than 100 films and a number of radio and television shows from the 1930s to the early 1980s.

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Warren B. Duff

Warren Duff (May 17, 1904 – August 5, 1973) was a film and television writer and producer.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.

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William B. Travis

William Barret "Buck" Travis (August 1, 1809 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American lawyer and soldier. He is known for helping set the Texas Revolution in motion during the Anahuac disturbances and commanding the Misión San Antonio de Valero (aka "The Alamo") as a lieutenant colonel in the Texian Army.

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William Witney

William Nuelsen Witney (May 15, 1915 – March 17, 2002) was an American film and television director.

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1824 Constitution of Mexico

The Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1824 (Constitución Federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos de 1824) was the first constitution of Mexico, enacted on October 4 of 1824, inaugurating the First Mexican Republic.

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See also

Cultural depictions of Davy Crockett

Cultural depictions of James Bowie

Films set in 1835

Films set in 1836

Texas Revolution films

Works about the Battle of the Alamo

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Command_(1955_film)

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