True Grit (1969) Review
True Grit (1969) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. John Wayne finally won an Oscar for playing a fat, drunk, one-eyed marshal who shoots men in the back, and the performance works because he is willing to…
Actor: Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall has been nominated seven times and won Best Actor for Tender Mercies, a small film about a country singer that he insisted on singing himself.
He is best known for supporting work: Tom Hagen across the Godfather films, and Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now, whose line about napalm in the morning is quoted by people who have never seen the film. Kilgore is on screen for a few minutes.
Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird was his first credited role and he has almost no dialogue in it.
He directed The Apostle, which he also wrote and financed himself, playing a preacher whose faith is genuine and whose conduct is not, and it is the fullest thing he has done.
