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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 True Grit film series consists of American western dramas, including theatrical and made-for-television installments. The plot follows the adventures of Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn in the Old American West , and detail his role in bringing justice to outlaws and bandits who wrongfully terrorize small towns and villages.
Among her many feature films is the one that she is most famous for in American and Hollywood motion pictures history, is that of co-starring with legendary John Wayne and Glen Campbell, in the Western classic True Grit (first version of 1969), in which she played "Mattie Ross", a precocious, unusually confident 14-year-old Arkansas frontier ...
The character was also featured in a 1978 made-for-television sequel entitled True Grit: A Further Adventure starring Warren Oates as Cogburn. The Coen brothers released a new film version of the novel in 2010. [2] In the 1969 and 1975 theatrical releases, Cogburn was portrayed by John Wayne.
True Grit is a 2010 Western film directed, written and edited by the Coen brothers.It is based on Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name, which had previously received an adaptation in 1969 featuring John Wayne.
Both Norwood and True Grit were adapted as movies, with fellow Arkansan Glen Campbell and Kim Darby in leading roles in the two films. Both pictures were commercially successful. John Wayne won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his performance as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit, one of the top box-office hits of 1969.
True Grit, a 1968 novel by Charles Portis True Grit (1969 film) , a film adaptation by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne True Grit (2010 film) , a film adaptation by the Coen Brothers, starring Jeff Bridges
During the 1960s and 1970s, Wayne starred in more Westerns, such as The Comancheros (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and True Grit (1969), in which his role as Rooster Cogburn earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor.