John Wayne Won His Only Oscar for This Gritty Western Riding Up the Digital Charts

The greatest icon of Western cinema, John Wayne, won his only Oscar for a movie that is riding up the PVOD charts, True Grit.
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True Grit

Read up on the latest True Grit 1969 film News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. A determined young girl enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger to track down her ...
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'True Grit' movie turns 50: Oklahoma author revisits 'real' Rooster Cogburn

A film that John Wayne used as a vehicle to win his only Academy Award, “True Grit” was released June 11, 1969. Wayne, who starred as Rooster Cogburn in the movie, died exactly 10 years later — June ...
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#11. "True Grit" (1969)

After hired hand Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) murders the father of 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby), she seeks vengeance and hires U.S. Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn (John Wayne), a man of "true grit," to ...