MOVIE · 1969

True Grit

ActionAdventureDramaWestern128 min

After her father is murdered and the family savings are stolen, a headstrong teenage girl hires a hard-drinking U.S. marshal to track the killer into frontier country. John Wayne is Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed lawman with a rough reputation and a habit of getting his man. Kim Darby’s determined young client refuses to stay behind, forcing her way onto the pursuit herself. When Glen Campbell’s eager Texas Ranger joins the chase with plans of his own, the search for justice turns into a tense, prickly partnership moving through outlaw territory.