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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 .
True Grit was shot by cinematographer Roger Deakins and scored by composer Carter Burwell—both Coen regulars—while the brothers themselves edited the film, under the Roderick Jaynes pseudonym. True Grit was released in theatres in the United States by Paramount Pictures on December 22, 2010. The film grossed $252 million worldwide on a $35 ...
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.
After Mattie was snakebitten, he rode through the night, holding her, in order to get her medical care. When the horse collapsed, he mercy-killed it with his revolver and then carried her a long distance in his arms to get her to a doctor, both saving her life and proving he really had the true grit Mattie thought he did.
True Grit (1969 soundtrack), by Glen Campbell and Elmer Bernstein "True Grit" (song), the album's title track; True Grit (2010 soundtrack), by Carter Burwell; True Grit (Bret Michaels album), 2015 "True Grit", a song by the Crystal Method from Legion of Boom, 2004
True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial within The Saturday Evening Post. [1] The novel is told from the perspective of an elderly spinster named Mattie Ross, who recounts the time a half century earlier when she was 14 and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel, Tom Chaney.
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The book said: "the winter of 1880"; but it is obviously Fall until the very last scene.68.231.189.108 19:32, 13 March 2010 (UTC) Much of the book took place in the Winding Stair Mountains of Oklahoma. I agree the scenes in the movie bear little resemblance to that part of the country.