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The Last Command is a 1955 Trucolor
Trucolor

Trucolor was a process used and owned by Consolidated Film Industries division of Republic Pictures. Trucolor was a two-strip process based on the earlier work of William Van Doren Kelley's Prizma color process....
 film about Jim Bowie
Jim Bowie

James "Jim" Bowie , a nineteenth-century American pioneer and soldier, played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating in his death at the Battle of the Alamo....
 and the fall of the Alamo
Alamo

The word Alamo, from the Spanish word for the cottonwood tree, may refer to:*The Battle of the Alamo, a battle fought during the Texas Revolution...
. Filmed by Republic Pictures
Republic Pictures

Republic Pictures is an in-name only independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B-film pictures, Western and movie Serial s....
, it was an unusually expensive undertaking for the low-budget studio. The film was orginally set to star John Wayne
John Wayne

John Wayne was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film actor. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon....
 as Davy Crockett, but Wayne and Republic Pictures head Herbert Yates
Herbert Yates

Herbert John Yates was the founder and president of Republic Pictures, famous for being the home of John Wayne, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers. Under Yates' leadership between 1935 and 1959, Republic made 956 feature films and 849 serial chapters, many of which are classics enjoyed today on television and DVD by a whole new generation of appreci...
 could not agree on a salary for the actor, who finally opted out of the deal. Five years later, Wayne would play Davy Crockett in, as well as direct, the three-hours-plus Todd-AO
Todd-AO

Todd-AO is an extremely high definition widescreen film format developed in the mid 1950s. It was co-developed by Mike Todd, a Broadway theatre producer, with American Optical Company in Buffalo, New York....
 blockbuster The Alamo
The Alamo (1960 film)

The Alamo is a 1960 in film USA War film released by United Artists, starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett, Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William B....
 , released by United Artists
United Artists

United Artists Entertainment LLC is an United States film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company....
.

The theme song for The Last Command , "Jim Bowie", is sung by musical film star Gordon MacRae
Gordon MacRae

Albert Gordon MacRae was an USA actor and singer, best known for his appearances in musical theater of the 1950s.Born in East Orange, New Jersey, MacRae graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1940 and served as a navigator in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II....
, who that year (1955) was starring in the smash hit film Oklahoma!, adapted from the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein
Rodgers and Hammerstein

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were a well-known United States songwriter duo, usually referred to as Rodgers and Hammerstein....
 musical.








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The Last Command is a 1955 Trucolor
Trucolor

Trucolor was a process used and owned by Consolidated Film Industries division of Republic Pictures. Trucolor was a two-strip process based on the earlier work of William Van Doren Kelley's Prizma color process....
 film about Jim Bowie
Jim Bowie

James "Jim" Bowie , a nineteenth-century American pioneer and soldier, played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating in his death at the Battle of the Alamo....
 and the fall of the Alamo
Alamo

The word Alamo, from the Spanish word for the cottonwood tree, may refer to:*The Battle of the Alamo, a battle fought during the Texas Revolution...
. Filmed by Republic Pictures
Republic Pictures

Republic Pictures is an in-name only independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B-film pictures, Western and movie Serial s....
, it was an unusually expensive undertaking for the low-budget studio. The film was orginally set to star John Wayne
John Wayne

John Wayne was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film actor. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon....
 as Davy Crockett, but Wayne and Republic Pictures head Herbert Yates
Herbert Yates

Herbert John Yates was the founder and president of Republic Pictures, famous for being the home of John Wayne, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers. Under Yates' leadership between 1935 and 1959, Republic made 956 feature films and 849 serial chapters, many of which are classics enjoyed today on television and DVD by a whole new generation of appreci...
 could not agree on a salary for the actor, who finally opted out of the deal. Five years later, Wayne would play Davy Crockett in, as well as direct, the three-hours-plus Todd-AO
Todd-AO

Todd-AO is an extremely high definition widescreen film format developed in the mid 1950s. It was co-developed by Mike Todd, a Broadway theatre producer, with American Optical Company in Buffalo, New York....
 blockbuster The Alamo
The Alamo (1960 film)

The Alamo is a 1960 in film USA War film released by United Artists, starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett, Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William B....
 , released by United Artists
United Artists

United Artists Entertainment LLC is an United States film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company....
.

The theme song for The Last Command , "Jim Bowie", is sung by musical film star Gordon MacRae
Gordon MacRae

Albert Gordon MacRae was an USA actor and singer, best known for his appearances in musical theater of the 1950s.Born in East Orange, New Jersey, MacRae graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1940 and served as a navigator in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II....
, who that year (1955) was starring in the smash hit film Oklahoma!, adapted from the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein
Rodgers and Hammerstein

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were a well-known United States songwriter duo, usually referred to as Rodgers and Hammerstein....
 musical.

Cast

  • Sterling Hayden
    Sterling Hayden

    Sterling Hayden was an United States actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in Western and film noir, such as Johnny Guitar, The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing....
     -- Jim Bowie
    Jim Bowie

    James "Jim" Bowie , a nineteenth-century American pioneer and soldier, played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating in his death at the Battle of the Alamo....
  • Richard Carlson
    Richard Carlson

    American movie actor Richard Carlson was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota. In the 1930s Carlson appeared on the Broadway stage after studying and teaching drama in Minnesota....
     -- William Barret Travis
  • Arthur Hunnicutt
    Arthur Hunnicutt

    Arthur Hunnicutt was an American actor known for his portrayal of wise grizzled, old rural characters....
     -- Davy Crockett
    Davy Crockett

    David Stern Crockett was a celebrated 19th-century United States folk hero, Frontier#American frontier, soldier and politician; referred to in popular culture as Davy Crockett and often by the popular title ?King of the Wild Frontier.? He represented Tennessee in the U.S....
  • Ernest Borgnine
    Ernest Borgnine

    Ermes Effron Borgnino , better known by his stage name Ernest Borgnine, is an United States Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award-winning actor....
     -- Mike Radin
  • J. Carrol Naish
    J. Carrol Naish

    Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish was an United States character actor born in New York City, New York. Naish did many film roles, but they were eclipsed when he found fame in the title role of radio's Life with Luigi, which surpassed Bob Hope in the 1950 ratings....
     -- General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
  • Anna Maria Alberghetti
    Anna Maria Alberghetti

    Anna Maria Alberghetti is an Italian-born actress and operatic singer.Born in Pesaro she starred on Broadway and won a Tony Awards in 1962 as Best Actress for Carnival ....
     -- Consuela de Quesada
  • John Russell
    John Russell (actor)

    John Russell was an United States actor most noted for playing Marshal Dan Troop in the Western television series Lawman from 1958 to 1962....
     -- Captain Almaron Dickinson
    Almaron Dickinson

    Almaron Dickinson was a Republic of Texas soldier and defender during the legendary Battle of the Alamo, fought during the Texas Revolution. Dickinson is best known as having been the artillery officer of the small garrison, and for being the husband of one of the only three non-Mexican survivors to live through the battle, Susannah Dickinso...
  • Virginia Grey
    Virginia Grey

    Virginia Grey was an American actress.She was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of film director Ray Grey. One of her early babysitters was Gloria Swanson....
     -- Mrs. Dickinson (Susanna Dickinson)
  • Jim Davis -- Ben Evans
  • Eduard Franz
    Eduard Franz

    Eduard Franz was an United States actor of theater, film, and television. Franz portrayed King Ahab in the 1953 biblical low-budget film Sins of Jezebel and Jethro in The Ten Commandments three years later....
     -- Lorenzo de Zavala
    Lorenzo de Zavala

    Lorenzo de Zavala was a 19th-century Mexico politician. He served as finance minister under President of Mexico Vicente Guerrero. A colonizer and statesman, he was also the interim vice president of the Republic of Texas, serving under President of Texas David G....
  • Otto Kruger
    Otto Kruger

    Otto Kruger was an United States movie actor who began his career in 1915. His career was most prolific during the 1930s and 1940s.The grand-nephew of South African pioneer and president Paul Kruger, Otto Kruger was musically trained, but switched careers and went into acting....
     -- Stephen F. Austin
    Stephen F. Austin

    Stephen Fuller Austin , known as the "Father of Texas", led the second and ultimately successful colonization of the region by settlers from the United States....
  • Russell Simpson
    Russell Simpson

    Russell Simpson is a former tennis player from New Zealand, who won six doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest singles Association of Tennis Professionals ranking on April 18, 1983, when he became #47 in the world....
     -- The Parson
  • Roy Roberts
    Roy Roberts

    Roy Roberts was an American character actor. Over his more than 40-year career, he appeared in more than nine hundred productions on stage and screen....
     -- Dr. Summerfield
  • Slim Pickens
    Slim Pickens

    'Louis Burton Lindley, Jr.' , better known by the stage name 'Slim Pickens', was an American rodeo performer, and film and television actor, who epitomized the profane, tough, sardonic cowboy, but who is best remembered for his comic roles, notably in Dr....
     -- Abe
  • Hugh Sanders -- Sam Houston
    Sam Houston

    Samuel Houston was a 19th century United States statesman, politician, and soldier. Born on Timber Ridge, just north of Lexington, Virginia in Rockbridge County, Virginia, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley, Houston was a key figure in the history of Texas, including periods as President of the Republic of Texas, United States Senate for Te...
  • Ben Cooper -- Jeb Lacey


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