Did you know that before John Wayne starred in 1969’s True Grit, it was a wildly popular ... Dead Man’s Walk and Comanche Moon. And, departing from the Western sphere, he also wrote the ...

the odds are against them. But rabid vengeance keeps determined Mattie going. Is true grit enough to see justice served?

To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally ...