The Alamo Page #4

just outside of town.

(branch snaps)

Don't move!

? Habla ingles, muchachos?

(man) We got 'em, David.

It appears to me

that we're all on the same side here.

What you doin' out here?

My name is David Crockett.

Crockett of Tennessee?

Davy Crockett?

He prefers "David."

Now, there was this little detail

of a re-election back home.

(crowd) Aww!

It's all right. It's all right.

- 'Cause you know what I told them folks?

- (man) What'd you tell 'em?

- I said, "You all can go to hell."

- (laughter)

- "I'm goin' to Texas!"

- (crowd) Yeah!

- Welcome to Texas, Davy.

- Thank you, sir.

- Put your mark on it, Mr Crockett?

- (man) Look out. Let me through here.

(Crockett) Absolutely.

"I'm half alligator, half snappin' turtle."

"I can slide off a rainbow and

jump the Mississippi in a single leap."

Tell 'em, Davy,

how you can whup your weight in wildcats.

I seen you onstage.

Well, that wasn't me.

Why... Why, sure it was.

No, sir, that was just an actor in a play.

He was performin' a character.

Aw, come on, Davy.

Say the lines.

Davy Crockett, the Lion of the West.

I dare San-tanna to show his face

now you're here.

Well, I understood the fightin' was over.

Ain't it?

(shouting in Spanish)

General, we've captured another

group of rebels.

(distant cries)

(soldier shouting commands

in Spanish)

(shouts in Spanish)

! Alto!

Shall we have them draw lots,

Your Excellency?

What for?

To determine which ones to execute.

Execute them all.

General, it is tradition.

If we follow tradition...

...the people here will remember

that Fate took their loved ones.

- (soldier shouts)

- (women scream)

! Fuego!

(women screaming)

Instead...

...they will remember that it was

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.

(soldier shouts order in Spanish)

(# "Mockingbird Quick Step")

(imitating mockingbird call)

(whispering)

(cheers and applause)

Well done.

You don't have the sand to even talk

to two of my men, much less arrest them.

I told you I intended

to restore order.

You've got no command

over my volunteers. None.

I have absolute command.

Break 'em out, boys.

Yeah.

'Cause it's gonna be a cold day in hell

anybody takes orders from a debtor

who leaves his pregnant wife

in the middle of the night.

How about a land swindler

who marries a girl, God rest her soul,

for her father's money?

Whoa, whoa, fellers!

Hey, hey, hey, fellers, now, listen.

Just 'cause we ain't got nobody to fight

don't mean we need to fight one another.

Congressman Crockett has a point.

We should do this democratically.

A vote.

- What about Colonel Crockett leadin' us?

- No, I'm with you fellers, not above you.

All for the lieutenant colonel,

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