Actor Lane Chandler portrayed David Crockett in Heroes of the Alamo, a low-budget film distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation in 1938. When Lane’s Crockett, a minor character in the film, arrives at the Alamo and is asked why he is there, he replies, “The numbskull voters in Tennessee wouldn’t send me back to Congress for another term. I figured your little war here was the next best thing to Congress.”