True Grit (1969)

In the Footsteps of... Dennis Hopper (160 movies items)

"Moon"

“Hathaway arrives with pal Duke to fordian or hawksian domains. The charge of the heavy Duke against the band of Robert Duvall is pure anthology, even when Kim Darby names what we see: "that's true grit". A realist ans tender depiction of west. Love tha hanging scene near the beginning.” read more

True Grit

“Star vehicles rely chiefly upon the success or failure of the material to take the persona of the star and twist it into a new shape. On these merits alone, True Grit is a resounding success. But taken as a complete work of film artistry, it doesn’t prove itself to be entirely successful. Yet for all of its problems, it’s not hard to see why The Duke finally won that elusive Oscar for his performance as the drunken rascal Rooster Cogburn.

We could sit here all day and argue over and over again whether or not his Oscar for Best Actor was a career achievement-in-disguise or won based on pure merit. It’s not hard to imagine a successful argument being made for his overlooked work in Red River or The Searchers as being more worthy of posterities value of what Wayne’s best pe” read more

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Nominations (342 movies items)

"ROOSTER COGBURN: Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch!"

Movies Watched in 2012 (421 movies items)

"Rewatched: DVD checked out/borrowed from library"

1969 Films Ranked (5 movies items)

"This is a great old-time western, but it does alter the story significantly in order to make John Wayne the focus, and also I thought Kim Darby was way too old to play a convincing Mattie."

Top Grossing Films of 1969 (25 movies items)

"$31,132,592 - Paramount "

Movie Spoilers (173 movies items)

"LaBeouf dies, Mattie is bitten by a snake, and Rooster saves her life. She later asks him if he would be buried in her family plot as a way to thank him."

True Grit

“After Frank Ross (John Pickard) is murdered in October 1880 by his hired hand, Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey), in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Ross' 14-year-old daughter Mattie (Kim Darby) travels to Fort Smith and hires the aging U.S. Marshal Reuben "Rooster" J. Cogburn (John Wayne). Mattie has heard that, despite his vices and missing eye, Cogburn has "true grit". She gives Rooster a down payment to track down Chaney, who has taken up with "Lucky" Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall), a gang leader whom Rooster once shot in a gunfight.

The pair must head into Indian Territory (Oklahoma). Mattie buys a horse for this, after collecting money from a horse trader. They are joined by a young Texas Ranger, La Boeuf (Glen Campbell), who hopes to collect a $1,500 reward for capturing Chaney, much more than Ma” read more

One-eyed Movie Wonders - Superant (48 movies items)

"Rooster Cogburn played by John Wayne "