True Grit
Summary:
In fine Hollywood tradition, John Wayne had to play a "one-eyed fat man" before the Motion Picture Academy considered him worthy of an Oscar. In True Grit, Wayne plays grumpy, pot-bellied U.S. marshal "Rooster" Cogburn, hired by 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) to find Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey), who killed her father. The headstrong Mattie could have had her p... Full Summary >>
Cast:
John Wayne - (Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn)
Glen Campbell - (La Boeuf)
Kim Darby - (Mattie Ross)
Jeremy Slate - (Emmett Quincy)
Robert Duvall - (Ned Pepper)
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Review:
If anybody was born to play a cantankerous-yet-charismatic U.S. marshal in a movie with a title like True Grit, it's John Wayne. Wayne's screen career was founded on this sort of swaggering masculine attitude, and director and frequent Wayne collaborator Henry Hathaway plays to the actor's strengths. The film wisely rides Wayne's ... Continue >>
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