[Borges]

[Vaquero]

Fill your hands, you Sonofabitch!

[Red Badger]

One of my favorites!

I loved Kim Darby!....................

[IronJack]

The Bridges version was truer to the book. But the John Wayne version had the Duke.

[RJS1950]

Hate to say it and nothing against John Wayne, but the 2010 movie version was much better.

[Emmett McCarthy]

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.

[Lmo56]

That last scene of the movie won Wayne the Oscar.

“Well, come see a fat old man sometime !!!”

[blueunicorn6]

I like the book and both movies.

[JoeA]

True Grit was a very good novel, and John Wayne’s realization of Cogburn is legendary; rightfully so. I thought Darby was pretty darn good, as well. I stayed away from watching the remake for years— how could they attempt such blasphemy? However, I finally gave in and really enjoyed it. Bridges was excellent.

[FoxInSocks]

Charles Portis was a sergeant in he Marine Corps.

I also preferred the Bridges/Steinfeld remake.

[TMN78247]

May Mr. Portis REST IN PEACE.

Yours, TMN78247

[RandallFlagg]

Who all here grew up eating sofkee?

[Peter Libra]

I have my paperback copy of “Dog of the South” by Charles Portis. The lonely school bus coming toward the viewer in the mist is a haunting vision. I have pleasure in re reading this first class novel. I would presume Charles Portis was given all the care possible. Not too many of his generation left, me one of them. RIP.

[PLMerite]

“Portis, who was uncomfortable with the fame that resulted from his literary success...””

Dude, then don’t be a professional writer.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.