Posted on 02/17/2020 12:24:59 PM PST by Borges
Fill your hands, you Sonofabitch!
One of my favorites!
I loved Kim Darby!....................
The Bridges version was truer to the book. But the John Wayne version had the Duke.
Hate to say it and nothing against John Wayne, but the 2010 movie version was much better.
It also had Glen Campbell. I loved Glen as a musician but his acting was sooooooooo bad it definitely brought down the movie a notch. Had they cast a decent actor in that role it would probably be my favorite western of all time.
“Hate to say it and nothing against John Wayne, but the 2010 movie version was much better.”
Yep, one of the few remakes that is better than the original
We have no rodeo clowns in Yell County.
“Hate to say it and nothing against John Wayne, but the 2010 movie version was much better.”
A matter of taste, I personally preferred the original.
Agree. John Wayne was so good he pretty much carried everyone else in the film. Glen Campbell was bad but didn’t ruin it.
John wayne is one reason I look forward to artificial intelligence making new movies with deceased actors. Go back to the old film look and have Wayne, Bogart, and those guys doing new material.
Glen was the hottest performer in the entertainment world when they cast him for True Grit. His recording career was in the stratosphere with those early hits, and his variety show on CBS was pulling strong ratings as well. Only logical that the producers would want to capitalize on his growing fame—and Campbell’s handlers would try to get him in a John Wayne movie.
Of course, Glen had few rivals as a picker. He made a lot of money as a member of the legendary “Wrecking Crew,” the studio musicians who played on (seemingly) every hit record made in Los Angeles in the early-to-mid 1960s. Campbell played on as many as 300 records in 1963 alone. Not bad for a kid from Delight, Arkansas who never learned to read music. But all a producer or arranger had to do was tell Glen what they were looking for (or run through the song once), and he delivered.
According to what I’ve read, John Wayne thought she was a talentless twerp.
But I admit she stirred my young-lad passions.
She was in two episodes of Star Trek, the original series, before True Grit, and some other movies, later, after True Grit, but never became a big star........................
Honest truth however unbelievable. I’d never watched the movie until last night. I saw about an hour of it and planned to finish it tonight. It’s on Netflix. The guy up and dies when I’m in the middle of my first look at the movie.
Watched the “original” “True Grit” several nights ago, I thought Glen did a pretty good job as an actor for his first time around. He was a one helleva country singer. Miss him.
That last scene of the movie won Wayne the Oscar.
“Well, come see a fat old man sometime !!!”
I like the book and both movies.
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