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.

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.

Shot in Technicolor on location in California and Colorado.

Additional credits: Jack Wilson (makeup supervisor); John Burton (set decorator); Roy Meadows & Elden Rubert (sound recordists).

Additional cast: John Pickard (Frank Ross) and Ken Renard (Yarnell Poindexter).

John Wayne: Oscar winning actor, TRUE GRIT, SANDS OF IWO JIMA
Glen Campbell: American Singer/Actor
Kim Darby: American Actress/60s-70s
Robert Duvall: American Actor/Director
Jeremy Slate: American Actor
Dennis Hopper: American Actor/Director
Alfred Ryder: American Actor
Strother Martin: American Supporting Actor

Henry Hathaway: American Director

Hal B. Wallis: Producer of over 400 Hollywood movies

Marguerite Roberts: Screenwriter

Elmer Bernstein: Composer, AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981)

Warren Low: American Editor

"[Wayne] charges through with a rollicking star turn."
5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] smartly written, beautifully photographed piece of cinema history."