She wants the bravest, not necessarily the best, but rather he is most fearless. When her father is murdered by ranch hand Tom Chaney, 14 year-old Mattie comes to the bustling town to hire someone to find the killer. For box office help they cast popular country singer Glen Campbell who would also sing the title song and newcomer Kim Darby beat out Mia Farrow for the plum role of Mattie Ross. Paramount offered the directing job to old veteran Henry Hathaway who accepted smelling a hit.
Wayne went after the role and of course, got it over other actors interested: George C. When the book was published, written by an unknown writer Charles Portis, Wayne tried at once to buy the rights, which had already been snapped up by Paramount Pictures. The sequence elevated the myth of John Wayne, shooting him looking slightly up at him so he appeared larger than life.
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If a dictionary was using movie scenes to describe courage, this would be the scene to do so. When the battle is over, only Rooster is alive, helped by the Ranger’s long shot at Pepper, hovering over a prone Rooster, preparing to kill him. On the ridge above, the girl, who had doubted the old man’s courage, says aloud, “No grit? Rooster Cogburn? Not much!” she explodes in awe of what the Marshall has done.
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Looking stricken, wounded by the words, Rooster roars back, “Fill your hand you son of a bitch” and he thrusts his reins in his teeth, draws another weapon in his free hand and charges, two guns blazing directly at the startled four men. They trade insults, Lucky Ned (Robert Duvall) mocking Rooster (John Wayne), eventually saying to him, “I call that bold talk for a one eyed fatman”. Outnumbered, outgunned, overweight, wearing a black eye patch, he does not back down, instead, spinning and cocking his rifle and marching forward like an old knight come to do battle. The outlaws ride into the meadow and see the lone man on a horse in their escape route, they size him up, he sizes them up. High above on a ridge, the Texas Ranger has got the young girl, she is safe. He rides into the meadow, blocking the escape route of the four cutthroat outlaws he seeks.
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