True Grit (Special Collector's Edition)
starring: John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall
directed by: Henry Hathaway
directed by: Henry Hathaway
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097361207742
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Extra tracks, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount Pictures
Manufacturer: Paramount Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 1860
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: June 11, 1969
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/05/2008 Run time: 127 minutes Rating: G
Amazon.com essential video:
A wonderful/rueful running gag in El Dorado involves the Edgar Allan Poe line 'Ride, boldly ride' being mangled by toupee-wearer Wayne into 'Ride, baldy, ride.' Two years later, in True Grit, Wayne put the joke in italics by donning an eyepatch and several inches of girth to play cantankerous territorial marshal Rooster Cogburn. Critics belatedly noticed that he could be a marvelously entertaining actor, and Hollywood finally gave him the Oscar they'd failed to nominate him for in Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Quiet Man, The Searchers, et al. But make no mistake: True Grit is a splendid movie, with lovingly textured storytelling and sturdy characters, Henry Hathaway's finest high-country action set-pieces, intoxicatingly ornate frontier language, and a couple of formidable bad guys (Jeff Corey's Tom Cheney and Robert Duvall's 'Lucky' Ned Pepper). It's a compliment to say that, from a technical standpoint, the movie could have been made any time in Hathaway's 40-year career, yet its feeling for the reality of violence ceded no ground to The Wild Bunch, released around the same time. Still, the film's most sublime passage falls between bursts of gunplay: Rooster sitting on a hilltop at night recounting his life story, as John Wayne metamorphoses ineluctably into W.C. Fields. --Richard T. Jameson
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