Movie: True Grit (1969)
- Director: Henry Hathaway
- Release Date: 11 June 1969 (USA)
- Writers: Charles Portis (novel) Marguerite Roberts (screenplay)
- Run Time: 128 min
- Country: USA
- Genre: Adventure , Western , Drama
Tagline: The strangest trio ever to track a killer.
Trivia: According to legendary stuntman Chuck Hayward in an interview just after John Wayne’s death, Wayne did the jumping the fence stunt himself. Wayne rode Hayward’s very famous stunt horse Twinkle Toes, which was used in many horse falling scenes in the fifties and sixties westerns and was getting quite old (like Wayne) when the jumping scene was done.
Goofs: Continuity: The white markings on Little Blackie’s legs and face change throughout the movie.
“The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy, Mattie Ross (Kim Darby), on a mission of “justice”, which involves avenging her father’s death. She recruits a tough old marshal, “Rooster” Cogburn (John Wayne), because he has “grit”, and a reputation of getting the job done. The two are joined by a Texas Ranger, La Boeuf (Glen Campbell), who is looking for the same man (Jeff Corey) for a separate murder in Texas. Their odyssey takes them from Fort Smith, Arkansas, deep into the Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) to find their man. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net> [edited]“
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