Posts from DukePilgrim in thread „True Grit (1969)“

  • True Grit (1969)

    Hi Todd

    Thanks for the link

    Seems the extras are trade secrets but after some digging I found a list of them

    Features:
    Commentary by Jeb Rosebrook, Bob Baze Bell and J. Stuart Rosebrook
    True Writing
    Working with the Duke
    Aspen Gold: Locations of True Grit
    The Law and The Lawless
    Theatrical Trailer

    The DVD is selling for as little as $3-$5.00

    I found this quote from a previous post on this thread

    Quote from dc65

    I too bought the special collectors edition and was slightly disappointed. I haven't listened to the commentary track yet, but the other special features were perhaps sub par. I say this only because the documentaries total forty minutes or less and to re-buy a movie that I already own for that seems a little lame. What I really wish is that they had done a huge trumped up version like Rio Bravo and the Searchers.



    No doubt if I buy this version a new super doper version will be unveiled!!!


    Mike

  • True Grit (1969)

    Quote from luckynedpepper

    does anyone know if a 40th anniversary special DVD of True Grit is in the pipeline ?
    if there is one due out i would hope there are plenty of extras on there ie: Duke's oscar win and speech,movie locations etc.
    thanks for any help



    Any word of a special edition?

    Mike

  • True Grit (1969)

    The only two films that I can recall seeing of the Coen Brothers and they were both highly recommended to me were Fargo and Miller's Crossing. Fargo I didnt think was that good and Miller's Crossing was way too slow. The best part was Albert Finney with the tommy gun.

    I think they are the "luvvies" favourites in the way Brando and Kubrick were hyped.

    Ringo, I think Elvis in the role Le Boeuf in True Grit was a strong possibility as Wallis and Colonel Parker had business relationship but by that time Elvis was fed up with movies after the dross he has churned out and the Colonel fought over money and billing so it came to nothing.

    I have also heard that Elvis was considered for the Ricky Nelson role in Rio Bravo but I think that was wiped out by other commitments and his induction into the army.


    Mike

  • True Grit (1969)

    I think you are being unfair on Kim and Glen. I accept they were both inexperienced when True Grit was being made but both put in more than acceptable performances. The play between the three characters is what makes the movie.

    Just as a after thought do you know there was serious thought by Hal Wallis to Elvis Presley playing LeBoueff role.

    In regard, to a possible remake whilst not fussed about it personally I think there is scope to make a decent movie in the right hands. However, I dont think the Coen Brothers are the film makers for the job.



    Mike

  • True Grit (1969)

    It's a way off, but the Coen brothers, who made the Oscar-winning picture No Country For Old Men, are planning another version of True Grit.




    This was the movie that won John Wayne an Oscar for playing crusty old Marshal Rooster Cogburn.


    But the Coen brothers intend to go back to Charles Portis's 1968 novel, which has a spinster recalling that, when she was 14, she set off from her family's 480-acre Arkansas farm to avenge her father's murder.
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    Dynamic duo: Ethan and Joel Coen


    "The book recounts the girl's story," Joel told me. "In the John Wayne film, she was played older. We want her to be her real age - it's her story!"



    In fact, I've just read Portis's book and it's a tale of rough frontier justice and a girl's coming of age. Cogburn's in his 40s - much younger than Wayne was when he played him.


    The Coens will join forces again with No Country For Old Men's Oscar winning producer Scott Rudin on True Grit, but it's not going to happen for at least two or three years.


    The Coens have Burn After Reading with George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Academy-Award-winning Tilda Swinton coming out this autumn, and they go into production later in the year on another Rudin production, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, based on Michael Chabon's book.
    Meanwhile, No Country's Oscars triumph gave the film a big boost at the box office in Britain: figures this week have been up 92 per cent. As of Wednesday, the film had taken £5,958,000.

  • True Grit (1969)

    The Coen Brothers are apparently planning a remake of True Grit basing the story on the book with more emphasis on Mattie Ross compared to Rooster Cogburn.

    It is a western but I cant say I am to enthused about the project.


    Mike

  • True Grit (1969)

    I watched True Grit today and I definitely think Senta is right about the footage being cut out from ride back with Mattie after the snakebite.


    Looking at the DVD it just looks like it has been edited in some way to make it look less harsh.



    Mike

  • True Grit (1969)

    Hello All


    Further to the cabin scene from True Grit featuring in Nevada Smith at a different angle it has also appeared earlier in the cabin scenes for North To Alaska with Fabian and Stewart Granger.


    All these films were directed by Henry Hathaway so I guess he liked the location.



    Mike

  • True Grit (1969)

    What can you say a superb movie and a great role for John Wayne and he knew it.


    Considering the inexperience of Campbell and Darby they performed as well as could be expected.


    I always thought it funny that Strother Martin turned up in both movies yet there was no connection between his roles


    True Grit as Col Stonehill


    Rooster Cogburn as Shanghai McCoy (the owner of the raft)