This western is the opposite of WAYNE's epic :it demonstrates that the personal is personal -as well as the political;Alamo is a background,since most of the action takes place after the defeat.
Glenn Ford portrays a character that strongly recalls that of Richard Widmark in Delmer Daves ' "the last wagon" ;a "deserter" in the former ,an outlaw in the later,they are both rejected by the whole community of a town,then a convoy ;their fiercest enemy is a marshal (caravane) and a lieutenant(Alamo).
Both "so called " cowards,pariahs save many lives and thus regain their lost honor;the most moving moment is when Hugh O'Brian asks Ford if he can shake hands with him.
A pleasant western ,with a credible figure of a man who has lost all that was his Raison d'être.
Glenn Ford portrays a character that strongly recalls that of Richard Widmark in Delmer Daves ' "the last wagon" ;a "deserter" in the former ,an outlaw in the later,they are both rejected by the whole community of a town,then a convoy ;their fiercest enemy is a marshal (caravane) and a lieutenant(Alamo).
Both "so called " cowards,pariahs save many lives and thus regain their lost honor;the most moving moment is when Hugh O'Brian asks Ford if he can shake hands with him.
A pleasant western ,with a credible figure of a man who has lost all that was his Raison d'être.