THE LAST COMMAND
(itepudblic) "DAVY CROCKETT, well, that’s for the kids, and Herbert Yates put too much politics in The Last Command." I would not have expected to find myself in agreement with John Waynethe quote comes from a short interview in the Spring issue of Sight and Sound --but apparently we both feel much the same about the Alamo, though possibly for different reasons. I would say that Yates’s production (directed by Frank Lloyd) was too wordy, rather than too political (possibly these are synonymous to Mr. Wayrie). Generally I like to know what forces have moulded other people’s’ history, but the Alamo-like Custer’s last stand or Cemetery Ridge-demands drums and bugles rather than words. The Last Command has some good moments--Santa. Anna’s army on the march and Bowie’s last desperate sortie against the guns-but the classic simplicity of the action is successfully obscured. John Wayne, I gather, would like to film the Alamo himself, and he would make a better job of it than this if his friend and mentor John Ford helped. But my pick for director would be Huston.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 884, 13 July 1956, Page 16
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183THE LAST COMMAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 884, 13 July 1956, Page 16
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