TOTAL FILM RETROSPECTIVE
In the late-70s, when Lewis Teague was shooting creature feature , its writer, John Sayles, took a day trip to the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. Outside the Alamo Church, picketers urged visitors (over 1.6m a year) to not so readily accept the American version of events being preached. This version – a celebration of how former Tennessee congressman Davy Crockett and a small band of men heroically held out, and ultimately sacrificed themselves, against an army of evil Mexicans – is a.
