True Grit (1969)
 After
40 years in films John Wayne finally won an Academy Award for Best
Actor for his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn, a fat, over-the-hill,
one-eyed, drunken marshal.
Based on a novel by Charles Portis, True Grit is
supposed to be a story about a 14-year-old girl (Kim Darby) who
hires a lawman to find her father's killer. In reality this is a
film about John Wayne - and it's a delight.
Wayne assumed the character of the one-eyed marshal again in Rooster
Cogburn in 1975 with Katharine Hepburn.
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