True Grit details

True Grit
Formats: PG DVD, Blu-ray
Starring: Strother Martin, Jeremy Slate, Glen Campbell, John Wayne, Robert Duvall, Kim Darby
Director: Henry Hathaway
Genre: Action/Adventure - Epic, Westerns
Studio: PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Collections: 100 Wild Westerns
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True Grit
PG Feature

DVD Information

Run time: 2 hours 8 minutes
Rental release: 22 Apr 2002
Main languages: English
Dubbed: German, French, Spanish, Italian
Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Hearing impaired subtitles: English
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  • John Wayne at his best

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By a customer from English , 09 Jul 2004

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    This has to be one of his best if not THE best performance of John Wayne's illustrious career, despite having to carry the dubious acting skills of the country singer (Glen Campbell).

    John Wayne plays a cork popping deputy marshall hired by a child Maddy Ross played by Kim Darby to track down and arrest or kill the murderer of her father, what follows is a movie filled with laughter action and tears a real must see if you have not already.
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  • Best True Grit

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By a customer , 10 Sep 2012
    This original is by far the best, plus John Wayne got an oscar

    for this film,Jeff Bridges did not, even the girl in the John Wayne film was better, and the famous line spoken by Wayne

    was by far better than the other one, and it was not all done in the dark, could watch this version again, not the other one though.
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  • True Grit

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    By a customer , 12 Aug 2012
    Probably one of the greatest ever John Wayne movies. There isn't really anything to dislike about it and having also watched the Jeff Bridges version, I was relieved to see that the same script was followed so faithfully. The new one is brilliant, but the originals are always the best.
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  • here,the remake is 10 times better than the original.

    Rated - 2.0 stars  
    By emperor10 (203 reviews) from newcastle upon tyne , 24 Jul 2012
    i watched the jeff bridges version (fantastic,by the way) before watching this. this looks like a made for tv special, its dull, boring, basically give it a miss. i have never understood the adulation john wayne got. he was a dull, 2D actor.
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  • Oscar Winning John Wayne Classic

    Rated - 4.0 stars  
    By Chrisaljack (307 reviews) from Hellingly , 22 Jul 2012
    The recent re-make of True Grit is really good (unlike so many attempts to re-make classic movies!). It is a tribute to this original version that the re-make follows the original very closely and does not attempt to be 'better'! John Wayne probably was awarded the Best Actor Oscar more for his overall brilliance as a Western actor than for this performance on its own, but that does not detract from the fact that True Grit was a fitting vehicle for the award. If you have seen the re-make and not this original, do yourself a favour and watch it...
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  • I won't rest until Tom Chaney's barking in hell...

    Rated - 4.0 stars  
    By CosmoForKing (1 review) from London , 08 Nov 2011

    THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Show review anywayHide

    Thinking I should watch the original before the remake, I thoroughly enjoyed True Grit. John Wayne's portrayal of the flawed, drunken and hard-nosed Marshal Rooster Cogburn is great, coupled with Charles Portis's unusual story of a young girl out for justice or revenge, this western has all the look of a classic genre piece with a twist of a young girl (Mattie Ross played by Kim Darby) in the lead role.

    Aside from seeing the beautiful wide American vistas in HD on the Blu-ray True Grit is worth a watch to spot some early performances from Robert Duvall as the villain Ned Pepper and Dennis Hopper as Moon.
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