Alamo Bay

Alamo Bay
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLouis Malle
Written byAlice Arlen
Produced byLouis Malle
StarringAmy Madigan
Ed Harris
Ho Nguyen
CinematographyCurtis Clark
Edited byJames Bruce
Music byRy Cooder
Production
company
Delphi IV Productions
Distributed byTri-Star Pictures
Release date
  • April 3, 1985 (1985-04-03)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5 million[1]
Box office$380,970

Alamo Bay is a 1985 American drama film about a Vietnam veteran who clashes with Vietnamese immigrants who move to his Texas bay hometown. The film was directed by Louis Malle, and stars Amy Madigan and Ed Harris. Future Texas A&M and Dallas Cowboys linebacker Dat Nguyen, who was aged 9 at the time has a small role as a Little League ballplayer. The film's soundtrack, composed and recorded by the artist Ry Cooder, was released as an album Music From the Motion Picture "Alamo Bay" in the same year, and its title track "Theme from Alamo Bay" can be also found on Music by Ry Cooder, a compilation album of Cooder's soundtracks from movies released between 1980 and 1993.

Plot

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town. He teams up with other fishermen and the KKK to terrorize the Vietnamese fishermen in a campaign of violence and intimidation based on true historical events that took place in Texas in the late 1970s and early 1980s.[2][3][4]

Cast

Soundtrack

The music for the film was composed, arranged and performed by Ry Cooder and released as an album, Music From the Motion Picture "Alamo Bay", in 1985. The album's nine tracks were recorded at Ocean Way Studio in Hollywood with a core of credited musicians including drummer Jim Keltner, pianist Jim Dickinson and bassist Jorge Calderon. As four of the tracks were non-instrumental, the album's front cover listed the names of the vocalists: Cooder, David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos, Lee Ving, John Hiatt and Amy Madigan.

Reception

In his review, Vincent Canby of The New York Times said "Like many other movies that have their origins in a general idea, which characters and their story, Alamo Bay is almost shamefully clumsy and superficial - it's manufactured 'art.' Watching it is an unhappy experience that never becomes illuminating."[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "AFI|Catalog".
  2. ^ Smith, Laura (2017-11-06). "The war between Vietnamese fishermen and the KKK signaled a new type of white supremacy". Medium. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  3. ^ Tsai, Tim; Filmmaker, Documentary. "Decades After Clashing With The Klan, A Thriving Vietnamese Community In Texas". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  4. ^ Taylor, Paul (1984-12-26). "Vietnamese Shrimpers Alter Texas Gulf Towns". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  5. ^ Canby, Vincent (April 3, 1985). "'Alamo Bay,' Ethnic Strife in Texas". New York Times. Retrieved October 4, 2020.


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