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…
Charles Portis wrote True Grit in Mattie Ross’s voice and never wrote another book like it, and the voice is why both film versions feel so different from each other. The 1969 film rates 8 out of 10 here.
Charles PortisTrue 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…
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