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True Grit (1969)
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A 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...
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John Wayne won his Oscar for playing a drunken Marshall in this film with Kim Darby and Glen Campbell.
What really characterizes the movie for me is the dialog. Kim Darby, who went on to play some 60 more roles, none of which I have seen, was considered a promising newcomer for this film. Marguerite Roberts, in one of her...
(complete True Grit review by Movie Addict)
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