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Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier

  • 19551955
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 33m
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Fess Parker in Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
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American frontiersman Davy Crockett fights in the Creek Indian War, is elected to the U.S. Congress and fights for Texas at the Alamo.American frontiersman Davy Crockett fights in the Creek Indian War, is elected to the U.S. Congress and fights for Texas at the Alamo.American frontiersman Davy Crockett fights in the Creek Indian War, is elected to the U.S. Congress and fights for Texas at the Alamo.
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    • Norman Foster
    • Thomas W. Blackburn
  • Stars
    • Fess Parker
    • Buddy Ebsen
    • Basil Ruysdael
    • Norman Foster
    • Thomas W. Blackburn
  • Stars
    • Fess Parker
    • Buddy Ebsen
    • Basil Ruysdael
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    • 45User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
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    Fess Parker
    Fess Parker
    • Davy Crockett
    Buddy Ebsen
    Buddy Ebsen
    • George Russel
    Basil Ruysdael
    Basil Ruysdael
    • Gen.…
    Hans Conried
    Hans Conried
    • Thimblerig
    William Bakewell
    William Bakewell
    • Maj. Tobias Norton
    Kenneth Tobey
    Kenneth Tobey
    • Col. Jim Bowie
    • (as Ken Tobey)
    Pat Hogan
    Pat Hogan
    • Chief Red Stick
    Helene Stanley
    Helene Stanley
    • Polly Crockett
    Nick Cravat
    Nick Cravat
    • Busted Luck
    Don Megowan
    Don Megowan
    • Col. William Travis
    Mike Mazurki
    Mike Mazurki
    • Bigfoot Mason
    Jeff Thompson
    • Charlie Two Shirts
    Henry Joyner
    • Swaney
    Campbell Brown
    • Bruno
    • (as Colonel Campbell Brown)
    Robert Booth
    • Congressman #2
    • (uncredited)
    Eugene Brindel
    • Billy Crockett
    • (uncredited)
    Benjamin Hornbuckle
    • Henderson
    • (uncredited)
    Jim Maddux
    • Congressman #1
    • (uncredited)
      • Norman Foster
      • Thomas W. Blackburn
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    • Trivia
      Buddy Ebsen was going to play Davy Crockett until Walt Disney saw Fess Parker in Them! (1954). When he saw Parker, he said, "That's my Davy Crockett!"
    • Goofs
      In his speech to the House of Representatives arguing against Jackson's expansion policies, Crockett uses the term "scalawags" twice. The term "scalawag" was not introduced until the 1840s, and was not widely used until after the Civil War, yet Crockett's speech was ostensibly between the years 1827 to 1835.
    • Quotes

      Col. Jim Bowie: How many men did you bring?

      Davy Crockett: Four, including myself.

      Col. Jim Bowie: Four? Two acres of walls to defend. It'll take a thousand troops to man the garrison adequately. And I got less than two hundred volunteers.

      Davy Crockett: Two hundred stubborn men can do a terrible lot of fighting.

    • Connections
      Edited from The Magical World of Disney: Davy Crockett: Indian Fighter (1954)
    • Soundtracks
      Ballad of Davy Crockett
      Music by George Bruns

      Lyrics by Thomas W. Blackburn (as Tom Blackburn)

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    For any generation.
    I've noticed most of the comments on this film have come from guys who saw "Davy Crockett" back in the fifties and sixties. I just want to assure those folks that Fess Parker was still working his magic years later.

    In the early eighties, when I was about nine years old, HBO or one of those channels ran the entire series. After we watched it, us kids around the neighborhood were piling up firewood behind our fences to make a sort of rampart upon which to stand while we defended the Alamo from old Santy' Anna. We didn't have the coonskin caps, but we did have active imaginations. Some of us even took it upon ourselves to learn more about the battle. Surely our teachers were mystified when, at that years history fair and contest, half of the boys entered carefully constructed miniatures of the battle, composed of Play-Do, pencils, and toy soldiers.

    I guess the show still had an impact on me later on when I was in the military. I learned from Fess Parker to make every shot count. When the time came, I did. I suspect quite a few of our nation's finest marksmen learned that from him as well.

    I won't go into the artistic or historic discrepancies of the film. Nor will I ramble on about politics in the so-called Age of Jackson, the causes of the Texan war for independence, or the speculations made about the death of David Crockett. This is a film for kids (regardless of age), and should be enjoyed as such. But one more thing has to be thrown in.

    On a late autumn night about six years ago I got the news that my grandfather had passed away. I went home and sat alone in the dark in my living room feeling that terrible numbness that we've all known at such times. I must have sat there a couple of hours before I found the TV control and hit the switch, mainly so there would be some light.

    On the screen were Fess Parker and Buddy Ebson, just beginning their adventure with the river pirates. For an hour or so I was able to smile a bit and feel a little of what I once had when I had first seen re-runs of that show twenty years before. Then I got some sleep and was able to wake up and face reality with a little more grit than I might otherwise have had.

    If Fess Parker ever reads this, I hope he knows how grateful I was, and am.
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      • May 25, 1955 (United States)
      • United States
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      • English
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      • Qualla Indian Reservation, Cherokee, North Carolina, USA
    • Production company
      • Walt Disney Productions
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