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The East Wall during the battle

posted 11 years ago by matwsussx
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Am I right in thinking you never ever seen anything of the east wall during the entire movie apart from the shot of it from the hill when the Tennesseans arrive in San Antonio. There are gates in the middle of it. There is one scene where Travis, Crockett and Bowie are in the corral compound bickering over the cannon raid but that's about it. There is a one scene of several Tejanos on top of a wall during the build up to the final battle - they are watching Mexican troops on the hill so I am assuming this is from the east wall - but that's it. A lot of fighting took place on that wall plus the Long Barracks fight was there but strangely you never see anything of the east wall as far as I can tell.

[–] Bilwick1 11 years ago

I've seen what's called the Director's Cut (a two-videocassette boxed set released about twenty years ago) and I think you're right about the East Wall. The Tejanos-on-the-roof is about the only shot of it except when the Tennesseans see it from the hill. The latter shot used to confuse me because I couldn't figure out what part of the compound the Tennesseans were looking at.I know the movie pretty well, and although unfortunately I never had the chance to visit it, thought I knew the layout and details of the Brackettville "Wayneamo" pretty thoroughly. But that shot from the hill always threw me. I guess it was because we don't see it in the rest of the movie that I couldn't place it.

By the way, regarding the Long Barracks, I have read that one of the deleted scenes--not even included in the Director's Cut VHS--was of the Mexican troops capturing the big eighteen-pounder cannon in the SW corner of the compound and turning it on the Long Barracks. The capture of the Texian cannon and the turning it on the Texians would have been one of the more historically accurate scenes in the final-assault sequence.