True Grit: Directed by Henry Hathaway. With John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate. A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.

True Grit (1969) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

True Grit: Directed by Henry Hathaway. With John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate. A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.

Goudy : Now is it not true that you sprang up on old man Wharton and his two sons with a deadly, six shot revolver in your hand? Rooster Cogburn : I always try to be ready.

True Grit: Directed by Henry Hathaway. With John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate. A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.

True Grit Jump to Academy Awards, USA (2) BAFTA Awards (1) Golden Globes, USA (3) Laurel Awards (4) National Board of Review, USA (1) Writers Guild of America, USA (1) Western Heritage Awards (1) 6 wins & 7 nominations

John Wayne had initially promised the role of Mattie Ross to his daughter Aissa Wayne, but director Henry Hathaway refused to cast her. Despite its commercial success, John Wayne was not pleased with the finished film.

So Mattie finds the toughest marshall of the West : the one-eyed Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn (John Wayne), who's never known a dry day in his life, and hires him - with $100 - to go after Chaney and Pepper.

Set on avenging her father's murder, a teenager hires a US marshal reputed to be a man of "true grit" in this Henry Hathaway western, best remembered nowadays as the film that won John Wayne an Oscar.

True Grit: Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin. A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.