True grit [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions present ; written for the screen and directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen ; produced by Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen ; a Scott Rudin/Mike Zess production. Hondo / Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Wayne-Fellows production ; Batjac Productions ; screenplay by James Edward Grant ; produced by Robert Fellows ; directed by John Farrow.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Widescreen ed.
Publisher:
Paramount Pictures,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
2 videodiscs (193 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
True grit: based on the novel by Charles Portis. Hondo: based on the novel "The gift of Cochise," by Louis L'Amour. True grit: Jeff Bridges (Rooster Cogburn), Matt Damon (LaBoeuf), Josh Brolin (Tom Chaney), Barry Pepper (Lucky Ned Pepper), Hailee Steinfeld (Mattie Ross), Dakin Matthews (Col. Stonehill), Elizabeth Marvel (40 year old Mattie), Domhnall Gleeson (Moon (The Kid)), Paul Rae (Emmett Quincy), Leon Russom (Sheriff). Hondo: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James Arness, Rodolfo Acosta, Leo Gordon, Tom Irish, Lee Aaker, Paul Fix, Rayford Barnes. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2010 (True grit) and 1953 (Hondo). Special features. True grit: Featurettes Mattie's true grit (5 min.); From bustles to buckskin: Dressing for the 1880s (8 min.); Re-creating Fort Smith (11 min.); The cast (5 min.); Previews (11 min.). Hondo: Special introduction by Leonard Maltin; Commentary by Leonard Maltin, Western historian Frank Thompson and actor Lee Aaker; Featurette: The making of Hondo; Profile: James Edward Grant; From the Batjac vaults; The Apache.
Summary:
True grit: Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested. Hondo: Hondo Lane, a dispatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. When Vittorio captures Hondo to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In order to protect her from a forced marriage with one of the Apaches, Hondo reluctantly goes along with the lie.
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