True Grit DVD

• Additional Details
• Format: DVD
• Rating: G
• Number of Discs: 1
• Run Time: 127 Minutes
• Region: 1
• Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
• Language: English
• Studio: Warner Brothers
• DVD Release Date: May 22, 2007
• Audio:
  ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
  ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
  FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono
  
• Director: Henry Hathaway
• Cast: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby
• Genre: Western
• Color: Color
• Includes:
  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
• Release Date: 1969

A wonderful/rueful running gag in El Dorado involves the Edgar Allan Poe line "Ride, boldly ride" being mangled by toupee-wearer Wayne into "Ride, baldy, ride." Two years later, in True Grit, Wayne put the joke in italics by donning an eyepatch and several inches of girth to play cantankerous territorial marshal Rooster Cogburn. Critics belatedly noticed that he could be a marvelously entertaining actor, and Hollywood finally gave him the Oscar they'd failed to nominate him for in Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Quiet Man, The Searchers, et al. But make no mistake: True Grit is a splendid movie, with lovingly textured storytelling and sturdy characters, Henry Hathaway's finest high-country action set-pieces, intoxicatingly ornate frontier language, and a couple of formidable bad guys (Jeff Corey's Tom Cheney and Robert Duvall's "Lucky" Ned Pepper). It's a compliment to say that, from a technical standpoint, the movie could have been made any time in Hathaway's 40-year career, yet its feeling for the reality of violence ceded no ground to The Wild Bunch, released around the same time. Still, the film's most sublime passage falls between bursts of gunplay: Rooster sitting on a hilltop at night recounting his life story, as John Wayne metamorphoses ineluctably into W.C. Fields.