Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Halls of Montezuma is a 1951 American World War II war film directed by Academy Award-winner Lewis Milestone and starring Richard Widmark.It also stars Robert Wagner in his first credited screen role and features Richard Boone in his feature-film debut.
Halls of Montezuma may refer to: Chapultepec, a hill settled by the Aztecs near Tenochtitlan; now a park in Mexico City; Chapultepec Castle, a Spanish structure located on Chapultepec hill "Marines' Hymn", the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, which starts "From the halls of Montezuma" Halls of Montezuma, a 1951 film
Strictly, the usage "Halls of Montezuma" is poetic license, as the building which the Marines stormed had been erected by the Spanish rulers of Mexico, more than two centuries after the Aztec Emperor Montezuma was overthrown. At the time of the assault, the fort was actually the newly founded Mexican Military Academy.
Halls of Montezuma: A Battle History of the U.S. Marine Corps is a computer wargame developed by Strategic Studies Group in 1987 for the Apple II. Ports were released for the Commodore 64 , Amiga , MS-DOS , and Apple IIGS .
Milestone denied Halls of Montezuma addressed his "personal beliefs" on the nature of war; he agreed to direct the movie as a financial expedient. [190] Halls of Montezuma recalls some elements of Milestone's 1930 anti-war classic All Quiet on the Western Front. The film's cast, like the earlier film, was selected from relatively unknown actors ...
The Marines' Hymn's opening line "From the Halls of Montezuma" refers to the Battle of Chapultepec in Mexico City during the Mexican–American War, 1846–1848. Montezuma is mentioned in Neil Young's song "Cortez the Killer", from the 1975 album Zuma (the title of which is also believed to derive from "Montezuma"). The song's lyrics paint a ...
As noted, the usage "Halls of Montezuma" is factually wrong - as the building was erected by the Spanish rulers of Mexico, more than two centuries after the Aztec Emperor Montezuma was overthrown. Several new rooms were built on the second floor of the palace during the tenure of President Miguel Miramón , who was also an alumnus of the ...
Gardiner worked in almost 100 movies. [1] He started film work in crowd scenes, making his big film break in 1927 the silent film The Lodger, by Alfred Hitchcock.. Gardiner and Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940)