True Grit
by Henry Hathaway
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Actor: Glen Campbell, Jeremy Slate, John Wayne, Kim Darby, Robert DuvallDirector: Henry Hathaway
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Producer: Joseph H. Hazen
Writer: Charles Portis
Writer: Marguerite Roberts
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; English (Unknown), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Special Edition
Running Time: 128 minutes
Release Date: 1997-02-19
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Movie Review: Angel and the Fat Man
Summary: 5 Stars
In John Wayne's latter years, he turned in a top-notch performance as the one-eyed whiskey drinkin', weight gaining, rifle twirling Texas Marshal Rooster Cogburn. He was tough as nails and had a heart of gold...that is, if you were a gold-digger. Fortunately, Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) was something of a gold-digger (at least when it came to digging up both the tender and tough sides of the Duke) as well as an all-too-determined young woman bent on the revenge of her father's murder. Rounding up the cast is sidekick La Boeuf (Glen Campbell) and Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper as two outlaws.
If one is not careful, nearly every great western ends up looking the same after a while. And TRUE GRIT at first glance may look like any other western. But it is so much more. It has good acting (John Wayne received a Best Actor Academy Award), witty one-liners and sharp dialogue far superior to most of the action movies today, and some really intense action sequences, especially the now famous climactic gun fight as the Rooster gallops into a 1-on-4 fight with a six-shooter in his left hand and a rifle in his right hand and the reins in his teeth!
If you're not into westerns you may still enjoy this move. Even if you're not that big of a John Wayne fan, you'll still love him in this role.
Summary of True Grit
John Wayne hams it up as a one-eyed, broken-down marshal in this 1969 adaptation of Charles Portis's bestselling novel. Kim Darby plays the formal-speaking adolescent who goes to Wayne for help tracking down her father's killer, and singer Glen Campbell straps on his guns to join the quest. Directed by old lion Henry Hathaway (Rawhide), this is largely a showcase for Wayne (who finally won an Oscar), but it is also a decent Western with a particularly stirring final act. --Tom KeoghKids & Family VHS Video
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