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1970

Best Actor

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John Wayne

1970

Nominated Original Song

True Grit (1969)

1969

Rank

222

Score

82.27

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Added

7/18/21

Western Adventure Drama film

Henry Hathaway follows a stubborn teenage girl who hires a drunken hard nosed US Marshall to track her father’s murderer into Indian territory clashing with a Texas ranger hunting the same man. Hathaway creates an action-packed, humorous, road trip-styled revenge epic with a performance that finally allows John Wayne to claim a best actor Academy Award.
It won 1 Academy Award and it was nominated for another one.

DIRECTOR

Henry Hathaway

American film director, and producer (1898-1985).

CAST

John Wayne

American (1907-1979)

Kim Darby

American (born 1947)

Glen Campbell

American (1936-2017)

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