True Grit (Special Collector's Edition)
by Henry Hathaway
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Actor: Glen Campbell, Jeremy Slate, John Wayne, Kim Darby, Robert DuvallDirector: Henry Hathaway
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Producer: Joseph H. Hazen
Writer: Charles Portis
Writer: Marguerite Roberts
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Extra tracks, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Movie Reviews of True Grit (Special Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: "... come see a fat old man."
Summary: 5 Stars
TRUE GRIT
Pinnacle of the late Duke period. I've heard the Coen Brothers are planning a remake with Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn, while the principles sound great, improving on the original seems like a tall order.
John Wayne was born to play Rooster Cogburn. The direction, scenery and writing sparkle in the original. Strother Martin's horse trader is perfect, how can they possibly recreate his reading of the line about a child falling in a well?
Atypical of John Wayne movies is the ambiguity between good and evil. Rooster Cogburn is taken to task (although it comes off sympathetically) for his homicidal approach to law enforcement. He's portrayed as selfish and totally capable of letting down those who depend on him. Robert Duvall's portrayal of Lucky Ned Pepper ranges from cold blooded opportunist (escape at the dugout) to killer with a conscience when he demands that Tom Cheney release Mattie Ross.
The only flaw in the movie is the casting of Glenn Campbell as LaBouef. His "big bore Sharps" can't inflict near the damage of his line readings. In spite that minor criticism this one of John Wayne's best roles.
Summary of True Grit (Special Collector's Edition)
In 1970 John Wayne won an Academy Award. for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn. The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced but enthusiastic Texas Ranger (Glen Campbell) joins the party. Laughter and tears punctuate the wild action in this extraordinary Western which features performances by Robert Duvall and Strother Martin.System Requirements:Running Time: 127 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?WESTERN/MISC. Rating:?G UPC:?097361207742 Manufacturer No:?120774A wonderful/rueful running gag in El Dorado involves the Edgar Allan Poe line "Ride, boldly ride" being mangled by toupee-wearer Wayne into "Ride, baldy, ride." Two years later, in True Grit, Wayne put the joke in italics by donning an eyepatch and several inches of girth to play cantankerous territorial marshal Rooster Cogburn. Critics belatedly noticed that he could be a marvelously entertaining actor, and Hollywood finally gave him the Oscar they'd failed to nominate him for in Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Quiet Man, The Searchers, et al. But make no mistake: True Grit is a splendid movie, with lovingly textured storytelling and sturdy characters, Henry Hathaway's finest high-country action set-pieces, intoxicatingly ornate frontier language, and a couple of formidable bad guys (Jeff Corey's Tom Cheney and Robert Duvall's "Lucky" Ned Pepper). It's a compliment to say that, from a technical standpoint, the movie could have been made any time in Hathaway's 40-year career, yet its feeling for the reality of violence ceded no ground to The Wild Bunch, released around the same time. Still, the film's most sublime passage falls between bursts of gunplay: Rooster sitting on a hilltop at night recounting his life story, as John Wayne metamorphoses ineluctably into W.C. Fields. --Richard T. Jameson
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