#The real story true grit 1969 movie

Glen Campbell is ineffective as Texas Ranger La Boeuf - a role first offered to Elvis Presley, to whom Wayne wouldn't take second billing - but it doesn't really matter.

You see, I admire and respect the true cowboy persona.

#The real story true grit 1969 movie

This movie has acquired a reputation for being a rollicking fun western, but actually it is surprisingly violent for a Wayne film (a pit of rattlesnakes, Dennis Hopper's fingers being severed), and, with its finely hewn, semi-Biblical dialogue (by Marguerite Roberts from Charles Portis's marvellous novel), it's not - unlike Wayne's earlier westerns - really suitable for family viewing, despite its strong moral theme. A Real Cowgirl At some point in my life I decided that I wanted to be a cowboy. But once I saw that the Coens were attached to it, and Jeff Bridges was cast as the male lead, I got more optimistic. Big John Wayne finally won peer group recognition, taking the best actor Oscar for his performance in this western as Reuben J 'Rooster' Cogburn, a cantankerous, one-eyed, drunken old reprobate hired by Mattie Ross (the excellent Kim Darby) to avenge her father's death at the hands of thoroughly nasty Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey). She also speaks her mind, is partial to cold buttermilk, and unafraid to face the harsh realities of life like the sudden murder of her father.