True Grit (film)
True Grit is a 1969 western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn. The film is adapted from the 1968 novel, True Grit, by Charles Portis.
John
Wayne's performance
Garry Wills notes in his book John Wayne's America that
Wayne's performance as Rooster Cogburn bears close similarities to the way Wallace
Beery portrayed characters in the 1930s and 1940s, an inspired if surprising choice
on Wayne's part. Wills comments that it's difficult for one actor to imitate another
for the entire length of a movie and that the Beery mannerisms temporarily recede
during the scene in which Cogburn discusses his wife and child.
Cast
John Wayne - Marshall Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
Glen Campbell - La Boeuf
Kim Darby - Mattie Ross
Jeremy Slate - Emmett Quincy
Robert Duvall - Ned Pepper
Dennis Hopper - Moon
Alfred Ryder - Mr. Goudy (Defense
attorney)
Strother Martin - Colonel G. Stonehill
Jeff Corey - Tom Chaney
Ron Soble - Capt. Boots Finch
John Fiedler - Lawyer Daggett
James
Westerfield - Judge Parker
John Doucette - Sheriff
Donald Woods - Barlow
Edith Atwater - Mrs. Floyd
Carlos Rivas - Dirty
Bob
Isabel Boniface - Mrs. Bagby
H.W. Gim - Chen Lee
John Pickard
- Frank Ross
Elizabeth Harrower - Mrs. Ross
Ken Renard - Yarnell
Jay Ripley - Harold Parmalee
Kenneth Becker - Farrell Parmalee
rest of
cast listed alphabetically:
Wilford Brimley - (uncredited)
Myron Healey
- Deputy at prisoner unloading (uncredited)
James McEachin - Judge Parker's
bailiff (uncredited)
Dennis McMullen - Bailiff (uncredited)
Boyd 'Red'
Morgan - Red (ferryman) (uncredited)
Robin Morse - Bit part (uncredited)
Stuart Randall - McAlester (uncredited)
Connie Sawyer - Talkative woman
at hanging (uncredited)
Jay Silverheels - Condemned man at hanging (uncredited)
Dean Smith - (uncredited)
Vince St. Cyr - Gaspargoo (uncredited)
Guy Wilkerson - The hangman (uncredited)
Hank Worden -
R. Ryan (undertaker, Fort Smith, Arkansas) (uncredited)
Plot
After
her father is killed, Mattie Ross, a headstrong 14-year-old girl, hires the aging,
irascible and drunken US Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn to track down the killer,
Tom Chaney. To do so, the pair must head into Indian territory, and are joined
by a young Texas Ranger, La Boeuf, who also hopes to capture Chaney and collect
a reward.
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