5/5/2023 0 Comments True grit 1969Interestingly, arch-conservative Wayne had no qualms about working with a screenplay written by leftist Marguerite Williams, a victim of the Fifties blacklist. The two men had a heated exchange with each other until the air cleared and they managed to come to terms. Tired of seeing the director berate Glen Campbell in front of cast and crew, Robert Duvall forced a confrontation one day. Hathaway and Wayne had worked together on a number of films before, but his dictatorial style rubbed his younger stars the wrong way. Instead, Wallis discovered Kim Darby while watching TV one night and decided she was the perfect Mattie Ross. Intimidated by the stories of Hathaway's martinet behavior on the set, Farrow insisted that Wallis replace him with Roman Polanski (who would have made a decidedly different True Grit). However, Robert Mitchum, Farrow's co-star in the British production Secret Ceremony (1968), advised her not to work with director Hathaway under any circumstances. When first approached, Farrow was eager to take the part and enthusiastically accepted. Wallis' original idea was to cast Mia Farrow in the role of Mattie Ross. So determined was Wayne to play the role of Sheriff Rooster Cogburn that he himself bid $300,000 on the rights, but found himself outbid by producer Hal Wallis. The story goes that novelist Charles Portis had put his story up for bids. During his six decades acting career, he had never won the OscarĀ®, yet True Grit (1969) was the movie that finally brought him the statuette. In l969, John Wayne was a craggy 6l years old, having survived his first cancer surgery four years earlier. Recovering from her injuries, the child proclaims to Rooster her wish to be buried next to him. Discovering that she has been bitten by a rattlesnake, the marshal, himself wounded, rushes the girl to a physician. After slaying Chaney, Rooster, aided by the dying ranger, pulls Mattie from the pit. As Chaney bludgeons La Boeuf, Mattie shoots the fugitive a second time and falls backwards into a snakepit. Armed to the teeth, the two return unexpectedly to rescue Mattie. Fearing for the girl's life, La Boeuf and Rooster pretend to retreat. Although she wounds him, Mattie is taken hostage by Pepper's band. During a surprise raid on Pepper's hideout, the lawmen kill four of his fellows and find a gold piece once the property of Mattie's father. The trio tracks the assassin across the border to the refuge of outlaw Ned Pepper. Despite mutual distrust, Rooster and La Boeuf unite to dissuade Mattie from accompanying them on their dangerous mission. Marshal Rooster Cogburn and accepts the help of Texas Ranger La Boeuf, who is intent on the reward awaiting the man to capture Chaney for crimes committed in Texas. Accordingly, she enlists the aid of one-eyed U. In 1880 in Yell County, Arkansas, 14-year-old Mattie Ross vows vengeance on her father's murderer, hired man Tom Chaney, who has fled into Indian Territory.
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