The Road to Fort Alamo

The Road to Fort Alamo (1964)

La strada per Fort Alamo

A lone rider comes across a dying soldier, the victim of an Indian attack, who gives him a paper authorizing the payment of $150,000 to the U.S. Army. The rider gathers some colleagues who disguise themselves as soldiers and who take the paper to a bank. They get the money but a shoot-out occurs, an old woman is killed, and the gang acrimoniously splits up. Later some members of the gang meet up with some real U.S. Cavalry soldiers and together they must fight off new Indian attacks.

Date of release
1964-10-24
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 19m
Genres
Western
Director
Mario Bava

Casting

Interesting facts

The Road to Fort Alamo is a 1964 Spaghetti Western film directed by Mario Bava.

Background and production

The Road to Fort Alamo was produced before the conventions of the Spaghetti Western were established with A Fistful of Dollars. European Westerns had become popular when Germany's Rialto Film bought the rights to Karl May's Western novels, and made several films with director Harald Reinl with his Winnetou series. Some of the films in that series were international co-productions involving Italian funding.

Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas described The Road to Fort Alamo as resembling the Winnetou films, as opposed to the style Leone developed with A Fistful of Dollars. The Road to Fort Alamo was filmed at Elios Film Studios in Rome and on location between February and March 1964.

Franco Prosperi, who served as one of the film's script writers and Bava's assistant director, expressed distaste towards it, stating that "Mario was useless at making Westerns; he had no talent for it. I disown [The Road to Fort Alamo] completely; it was kind of a disaster."

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