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Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, Dolby, Digital Audio
Editor's Note
A pure western in which a lawmen tracks a criminal, TRUE GRIT, based on Charles Portis' novel, reunited John Wayne with director Henry Hathaway (THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER). Wayne is crotchety U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, who would rather stay home than chase criminals. He heeds the call, though, when fourteen year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) calls on him to avenge her father's death at the hands of a man who has escaped into Indian territory. Glen Campbell is a Texas ranger who accompanies them for his own reasons. Wayne reprised the role six years later in ROOSTER COGBURN.
Plot Summary
Oscar winning performance by John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn, the one-eyed, eye-patched Deputy Marshal who helps a stubborn, yet resourceful, teenage girl find the murderer of her father.
| Features | Full Frame - 1.33 |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 2/5/2008 |
| Running Time: 127 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1969 | | Catalog ID: 120774 | | UPC: 00097361207742 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Academy Awards (1969) |  | John Wayne, Winner, Best Actor |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"[Wayne] charges through with a rollicking star turn." 06/01/2007 p.56Ultimate DVD
5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] smartly written, beautifully photographed piece of cinema history." 08/01/2007 p.111 |
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