Always a John Wayne fan, I became a bigger one after watching "True Grit" and associating it with the region in which I was raised. Set in the 1880s, Charles Portis' 1968 novel describes 14-year-old ...

Location of the cemetery at Mattie’s Ranch. You can see the fence outlining the family graveyard where Mattie tells Rooster he has a plot. (Marianne Mogon) In June of 1969, Paramount Pictures released ...

The film’s take on guns, law and self-reliance are similar to stances taken by the populist political movement, argues Daniel Menaker. By Tim Appelo Hailee Steinfeld (with Matt Damon) was chosen for ...

What moved Joel and Ethan Coen to adapt Charles Portis’s 1968 novel True Grit for the screen anew, 40-plus years after John Wayne made the one-eyed Marshall “Rooster” Cogburn his own? My guess is that ...

It was July 4th, 1969. I had a 24-hour pass, so I headed to D.C. Thought I’d take in movie, then see the fireworks at the Washington Monument. This would be my last hurrah before the hell week of ...