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After Mattie was snakebitten, he rode through the night, holding her, in order to get her medical care. When the horse collapsed, he mercy-killed it with his revolver and then carried her a long distance in his arms to get her to a doctor, both saving her life and proving he really had the true grit Mattie thought he did.
The horse shown during the final scene of True Grit (before he jumps the fence on Twinkle Toes) was Dollor, a two-year-old (in 1969) chestnut Quarter Horse gelding. Dollor ('Ol Dollor) was Wayne's favorite horse for 10 years. Wayne fell in love with the horse, which carried him through several more Westerns, including his final movie, The Shootist.
True Grit is a 2010 American Western film directed, written, produced, and edited by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.It is an adaptation of Charles Portis's 1968 novel.Starring Jeff Bridges as Deputy U.S. Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn and with Hailee Steinfeld in her theatrical film debut as Mattie Ross, the film also stars Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Barry Pepper.
Written by Martha Hyer (who is credited as Martin Julien) and based on the Rooster Cogburn character from Charles Portis' 1968 Western novel True Grit, the film is a sequel to True Grit (1969), [2] and the second installment overall in the film series of the same name. The plot details the continuing adventures of Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn ...
Years of true-grit living on a ranch has taught Cole ... Hauser's signature slogans such as "Get up and get after it," denim that the actor says is engineered to be in a "horse saddle for eight ...
The True Grit film series consists of American western dramas, including theatrical and made-for-television installments. The plot follows the adventures of Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn in the Old American West , and detail his role in bringing justice to outlaws and bandits who wrongfully terrorize small towns and villages.
From that memorable closeup of him in his breakout movie, "Stagecoach," to all the performances that followed in movies like "The Searchers," "Rio Bravo," "Sands of Iwo Jima," and "True Grit," the ...
True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial within The Saturday Evening Post. [1] The novel is told from the perspective of an elderly spinster named Mattie Ross, who recounts the time a half century earlier when she was 14 and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel, Tom Chaney.