The Last Command is a 1955 American Western film directed by Frank Lloyd starring Sterling Hayden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Richard Carlson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Ernest Borgnine and J. Carrol Naish based on the life of Jim Bowie and the Battle of the Alamo.

In 1835, Jim Bowie discovers uneasy disputes between the Mexican government and the American immigrants who've settled in Texas.

Several of the Texians confront Bowie that he is not only a large landowner, but he is married to a daughter of a Mexican Lieutenant Governor.

When faced with accusations he is disloyal to the American settlers, Bowie, who has only recently used his influence to free William Travis from arrest, leaves.

After his departure, Mike "the Bull" Radin, a hot head Texian challenges Bowie to a knife fight.

Unlike other films depicting the Texas War of Independence, Bowie and Santa Anna are friends and respect each other.

Santa Anna's army besieges the Alamo, and though allowing the women and children to leave in peace, Captain Dickinson's wife and Consuelo de Quesada, who loves Bowie refuse to go.

During the siege Santa Anna and Bowie meet one more time under a flag of truce with each man understanding the other's view that events have spiralled out of control.

[2][3] The project was going to be filmed after Wayne did The Quiet Man for Republic; Paul Fix and James Edward Grant had reworked the script.

[8] Five years later Wayne would play Davy Crockett in, as well as direct, the three-hour-plus Todd-AO production The Alamo, released by United Artists, that featured many elements of The Last Command but was also bloated and flawed with historical inaccuracies in its screenplay.