Kim Darby was not the first choice to play Mattie Ross.
Her gritty performance as Mattie provides the perfect counterpoint to the larger-than-life Rooster. Wayne is highly entertaining in True Grit, but some of the credit belongs to his co-star Kim Darby. Wayne thought that scene was the best acting he had ever done, though he was surprised when he won the Oscar for Best Actor (he thought Richard Burton would win for Anne of the Thousand Days). He affectionately calls her "little sister" and, in a rare moment of insight, Rooster tells the teenager about his failed attempts at marriage and fatherhood. The strength of True Grit, of course, is the relationship between Mattie and Rooster. Then he came back to me to play Rooster." But (producer) Hal Wallis knew about this other book by Portis, Norwood, and he made an offer for both and outbid me. I went up to $300,000, and that's pretty good going for an unpublished galley of a Western story. Charles Portis has a real Mark Twain feeling, the cynicism and the humor. He was also a fan of the novel and told Roger Ebert in 1969: "I loved that book. John Wayne thought her True Grit script was the best he'd read in years. Marguerite Roberts was blacklisted in Hollywood for nine years, starting in 1951, for refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. It's not until late in the film that Peppers finally makes an appearance. I especially like how she introduces the outlaw Ned Peppers (Robert Duvall) through other characters' descriptions of him.
She imbues the dialogue with natural humor and captures the well-drawn characters from the Portis novel. Mattie and Rooster are joined by a Texas Ranger named Le Boeuf (Glen Campbell), who is seeking the same man for the murder of a Texas senator.īased on Charles Portis' 1968 novel, True Grit benefits from an exceptional screenplay by Marguerite Roberts ( Ziegfeld Girl, Ivanhoe).
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She sets her sights on Rooster Cogburn (Wayne) because she hears he has "grit." Cogburn isn't interested until Mattie agrees to a $100 reward-that plus the fact the grizzled lawman also admires the girl's spunk. When he confides that his jurisdiction doesn't extend into the Indian Nation, Mattie seeks out a federal marshal. She also wants to know why the sheriff isn't pursuing her father's murderer. Kim Darby stars as determined teenager Mattie Ross, who arrives in Fort Smith, Arkansas, to bury her father. However, it gradually became the eighth biggest moneymaker of the year and earned John Wayne his only Oscar. Thus, it's not surprising that True Grit-a conventional Western compared to the other three-slipped under the radar. Sam Peckinpah's violent The Wild Bunch earned critical raves in the U.S., while Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West thrilled European audiences. The biggest hit of the year was the revisionist Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The year 1969 was a remarkable one for the Western genre.
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