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Rating: Null/10 (28 January 2006)

The Mexican actor who played Santa Anna was NOT the first Mexican to play Santa Anna in movie history. It was James Olmos way back in 1980, a Mexican, who played Santa Anna for a PBS movie called, Juan Seguin. This man has been in a lot of movies as an extra and star, most people know him in his long career in front of the camera. And the REAL Santa Anna was not that bad as portrayed in the movie, a lot of his alleged Don Juan activities are just myths, that's all. Anyway, the movie itself I would rate a C~ no more, no less, it was just an average western like John Wayne's version. It tried to portrayed the three main characters in a new light based on their bad character traits as revealed by historical research. HOWEVER, it was good and wholesome to see Davy Crockett on his knees in front of the Mexican soldiery, for he did indeed surrender to Mexican forces that day, only to be killed moments after surrendering. This has been known just days after the battle. Even Sam Houston said that Davy and a handful of other Tex defenders begged for mercy from the Mexican soldiers. The rest is history as they say!