If money can buy success, Actor-Producer John Wayne's Texas-sized epic, The Alamo, should be a smash; the $8,000,000 budget includes a full-scale replica of the famous mission built on the flats of Brackettville, Texas. But could it be that piety is also needed for a boffo picture? Before the first scene was shot last week, cast and crew assembled at the re-created Alamo and listened to a special prayer recited by the Rev. Peter Rogers of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, San Antonio. "O Almighty God . . . today we ask thy blessing, thy help and thy protection, as once...
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