True Grit (1969)

Editor's Note A pure western in which a lawmen tracks a criminal, TRUE GRIT, based on Charles Portis' novel, reunited John Wayne with director Henry Hathaway (THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER). Wayne is crotchety U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, who would rather stay home than chase criminals. He heeds the call, though, when fourteen year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) calls on him to avenge her father's death at the hands of a man who has escaped into Indian territory. Glen Campbell is a Texas ranger who accompanies them for his own reasons. Wayne reprised the role six years later in ROOSTER COGBURN.

	Dennis Hopper
	Glen Campbell
	Alfred Ryder
	Robert Duvall
	Kim Darby
	Strother Martin
	John Wayne
	Jeremy Slate
	Marguerite Roberts - Screenwriter
	Hal B. Wallis - Producer
	Walter Tyler - Production Designer
	Elmer Bernstein - Composer
	Warren Low - Editor
	Lucien Ballard - Director of Photography
	Henry Hathaway - Director

Oscar winning performance by John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn, the one-eyed, eye-patched Deputy Marshal who helps a stubborn, yet resourceful, teenage girl find the murderer of her father. Entertainment Weekly
"[Wayne] charges through with a rollicking star turn." 06/01/2007 p.56

Ultimate DVD
5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] smartly written, beautifully photographed piece of cinema history." 08/01/2007 p.111

A.V. Club
"It isn't just a movie about the ways of the vanishing WEst; it's about the ways of the vanishing Western." -- Grade: B 01/07/2010

Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "[Wayne] simply gives us his best late-career Wayne, just with an eyepatch. And yes, he's darn good at it." 03/01/2011