***Might as well try to remake Casablanca. There is no point to it.****
Might as well vent my spleen as to why I HATE the John Wayne verison!
1. Glen Campbell can not act!
2.Kim Darby is too old for her part. She was already playing adult roles in other films.
3.John Wayne ceased acting after THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALENCE. The rest of his westerns were a version of McLintock, a parody of himself. He telegraphed all his moves while playing a funny drunk, not a SOT. He just changed his shirt from red to blue in some of them. his last real acting role was THE SHOOTIST. I wonder how Randolph Scott would have done it! Wayne’s movies before 1962 were great!
4.The outlaws looked like they had just come from the barber. None of the dirt or hair on someone on the lam from Judge Parker’s noose. Not a tick or chigger bite on them!
5.The Country. Oklahoma is NOT the Rocky Mountains or Sierra Nevada mountains. The new TG looks like Oklahoma in winter!
6.The saddles look modern. The new TRUE GRIT has authentic saddles.
7. Did I mention Glen Campbell really really could not act!
There! I feel better after carrying this load around for 41 years!
OK, I need to deal with this.
First: Glen Campbell cannot act. True. But at this time all John Wayne/Henry Hathaway/John Ford films featured a pop star as co-star. It was a convention. It certainly doesn’t upset one of my favorite Westerns: Rio Bravo. Get used to it.
2. Kim Darby is not too old. In acting, most actresses MUST be older to play younger parts. The problem with Ms. Darby is that she wasn’t strong enough - or charismatic enough - to stand up against actors like Wayne, Strother Martin, etc. She just didn’t have the talent to overcome these great, great actors. But in her quieter scenes, she’s not half bad.
John Wayne never ceased acting. You are buying into a cliche. He was a wonderful actor who died with his boots on. Educate yourself.
If you think Dennis Hopper just came from a barber, you need to check out an eye doctor.
I know nothing about saddles - but I know what I like.
my favorite Wayne vehicles were in his fading years...True Grit and the Shootist are 2 of my favorites.
but there is one from the 1950s that I consider his best.
The Searchers.
“The new TG looks like Oklahoma in winter”
We live in Oklahoma. I made this very point to my wife after we saw the film.