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Hit 7 - True Grit
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List Price: $9.95
Our Price: $2.60
Your Save: $ 7.35 ( 74% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall
Directed By: Henry Hathaway
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792107125
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0792107128
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1997-02-19
Running Time: 128
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1969-06-11
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Editorial Reviews:
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John Wayne hams it up as a one-eyed, broken-down marshal in this 1969 adaptation of Charles Portis's bestselling novel. Kim Darby plays the formal-speaking adolescent who goes to Wayne for help tracking down her father's killer, and singer Glen Campbell straps on his guns to join the quest. Directed by old lion Henry Hathaway (Rawhide), this is largely a showcase for Wayne (who finally won an Oscar), but it is also a decent Western with a particularly stirring final act. --Tom Keogh
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Summary: A Cinema Classic
Comment: A terrific re-packaging of this fabulous movie. Picture and sound much improved. Impossible to improve the film itself.
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Summary: Review of True Grit
Comment: Excellent movie staring the ultimate John Wayne. One of his greats! Amazon made it easy to order and it was quickly received. Typical Fabulous Amazon service.
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Summary: True Grit dvd is fabulous!
Comment: True Grit (Special Collector's Edition)This is the movie John Wayne won an Oscar for his performance and well deserved it truely is! Excellent script, excellent directing and most of all, excellent acting. The movie was perfectly cast and all the actors delivered their best. The most beautiful locations added to the movie presentation. They have a featurette on this dvd about the location of the movie---and it is a real town. All I can say is the entire movie is so impressive and I would recommend this dvd as a must have for any film library.
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Summary: Angel and the Fat Man
Comment: In John Wayne's latter years, he turned in a top-notch performance as the one-eyed whiskey drinkin', weight gaining, rifle twirling Texas Marshal Rooster Cogburn. He was tough as nails and had a heart of gold...that is, if you were a gold-digger. Fortunately, Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) was something of a gold-digger (at least when it came to digging up both the tender and tough sides of the Duke) as well as an all-too-determined young woman bent on the revenge of her father's murder. Rounding up the cast is sidekick La Boeuf (Glen Campbell) and Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper as two outlaws.
If one is not careful, nearly every great western ends up looking the same after a while. And TRUE GRIT at first glance may look like any other western. But it is so much more. It has good acting (John Wayne received a Best Actor Academy Award), witty one-liners and sharp dialogue far superior to most of the action movies today, and some really intense action sequences, especially the now famous climactic gun fight as the Rooster gallops into a 1-on-4 fight with a six-shooter in his left hand and a rifle in his right hand and the reins in his teeth!
If you're not into westerns you may still enjoy this move. Even if you're not that big of a John Wayne fan, you'll still love him in this role.
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Summary: Good Vehicle For the Duke
Comment: When a film or performance has the imprateur of the Oscar you expect something really special. In that sense I would call "True Grit" a minor disappointment. For sure John Wayne delivers a flamboyant and energetic turn as Rooster Cogburn in a role tailored to his particular strengths. But I couldn't help to think he was so much better in films like "The Searchers", "Red River" and his final film, "The Shootist". I'm reminded of when they finally rewarded Paul Newman after years of solid work it had to be for an OK performance in "The Color of Money". That said, on the whole "True Grit" is a good rousing western that falls just shy of greatness. Maybe a little formulaic but so what if it works. The film is skillfully directed by western vet Henry Hathaway and beautifully lensed by Peckinpah stalwart Lucien Ballard. Kim Darby playing younger than her years Mattie Ross, a feisty girl who contracts Cogburn to find the killer of her father, is beguiling. Glen Campbell is better than expected as a Texas Ranger who forms a begrudging alliance with Cogburn to find the killer. Excellent supporting cast includes Jeff Corey, John Fiedler, Robert Duvall and the inimitable Strother Martin. Look close for an abbreviated appearance by Hank Worden, a veteran of Wayne and John Ford films, as an undertaker. Didn't knock my socks off but not a bad way to spend two hours.
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