The Alamo (1960)

The following guns were used in the film The Alamo (1960):

The Alamo (1960)

Kentucky Flintlock Rifle

The Kentucky Flintlock Rifle is prominantly seen in the hands of the defenders of The Alamo, and is the only identifiable flintlock rifle used in the film.

Kentucky Flintlock Rifle - .36, .45, and .50 caliber.

The Boy pours powder in the flashpan of his Kentucky rifle to fire off a signaling shot to the Tennessee soldiers.

Colonel Davy Crockett (John Wayne) with his .36 caliber Kentucky Rifle wrapped in deerskin.

Crockett and his men fire their rifles on the attacking Mexican soldiers.

Texas soldiers fire their flintlock rifles.

Crockett fires his Kentucky rifle.

Flintlock Pistol

Officers in the film keep dress officer's Flintlock Pistols in cross draw holsters throughout the film. Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) holds a smaller model on Colonel Davy Crockett (John Wayne) before he takes it from him. Bowie is also seen wielding two pistols during the last stand. Colonel William Travis (Laurence Harvey) also wields one during the fighting.

General Sam Houston (Richard Boone) with a dress pistol in his holster.

Capt. Almeron "Dick" Dickinson with a flintlock pistol in his holster.

Crockett takes Bowie's pistol from him.

Crockett blows the powder out of the flashpan to render the weapon useless.

Crockett and Bowie sneak past a Mexican camp in the river while holding pistols.

Crockett wields a pair of flintlock pistols in his final moments.

Nock Gun

Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) carries a 7-barreled Nock Gun as his main weapon in the film. This gun could be considered an old-day shotgun, although it was ironically designed as a marksman's rifle. The combination of seven smooth bore barrels unevenly placed in a "honey-comb" formation made the rifle extremely inaccurate (which led to it quickly switching from a marksman's rifle to a volley gun) and the immense recoil of the seven barrels all firing at once was unpleasant. On top of that, the rifle was rather heavy and took far too long to reload and was thus never popular in combat use.

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Nock Gun - .52 Caliber.

Bowie armed with his seven-barreled Nock Gun.

The immense muzzle flash of Bowie's Nock Gun as he fires it, taking out mulitple Mexican soldiers in one shot.

Crockett gives Bowie back his Nock Gun.

Bowie armed with his Nock Gun during the final battle at the Alamo.

Bowie guns down multiple Mexican soldiers with his Nock Gun during his final moments. Note that the weapon is much larger here than in other scenes, because this gun is meant to fire pyrotechnic charges that are safer at close ranges than blanks.

Trapdoor Springfield 1873

Some soldiers defending The Alamo use Trapdoor Springfield 1873 rifles mocked up as flintlock rifles, likely due to the ease of using metallic blanks cartridges instead of blank shot.

Trapdoor Springfield 1873 - .45-70.

An Alamo defender fires a Trapdoor Springfield mocked up as a flintlock rifle.

A mocked up Trapdoor Springfield circled in red in a rifle line up.

Bowie Knife

While not a firearm, Jim Bowie's (Richard Widmark) knife is unveiled for the first time in the Alamo, and admired by Davy Crockett (John Wayne).

Crockett admires Bowie's new knife design.