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True Grit is a 1969 American Western film directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, Glen Campbell as La Boeuf and Kim Darby as Mattie Ross. It is the first film adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Marguerite Roberts.
Fourteen-year-old precocious Arkansas farm girl Mattie Ross hires Cogburn, a grizzled, boozy, trigger-happy, mean and nasty lawman, to go after murderer / robber outlaw Tom Chaney who has murdered her father Frank Ross, while those two were on a trip to Fort Smith, Arkansas to purchase horses.
True Grit: Directed by Henry Hathaway. With John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate. A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.
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- Adventure, Drama, Western
- Henry Hathaway
- 1969-06-21
Find out who starred in and worked on the 2010 remake of the classic Western film True Grit, directed by the Coen brothers. See the full cast and crew list, including Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and more.
True Grit: Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin. A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- 33 sec
True Grit - Trailer. In 1970, John Wayne won an Academy Award for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken, uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn.
- 4 min
- 279K
- Paramount Movies
True Grit is a powerful story of vengeance and valor set in an unforgiving and unpredictable frontier where justice is simple and mercy is rare. Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), is determined to...