Hundred dollars for a sheriff

Hundred dollars for a sheriff is an American film carried out by Henry Hathaway, left in 1969.

Synopsis

The young person but early Mattie Ross works as accountant in the Ranch of his father. This one decides to leave to buy ponies mustang in Fort Smith. He is assassinated in the course of road by his foreman Tom Chaney.

Mattie Ross then undertakes to avenge his/her father and engages for this purpose Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed federal sheriff with the off-hand manners, which will be able to be introduced into the Indian reserve where the assassin found refuge. One fringant Texas to arrange called “the Ox” is also interested by the capture of Tom Chaney and tries to rejoin Cogburn with its cause.

Data sheet

Title: Hundred dollars for a sheriff
original Title: True grit
Realization: Henry Hathaway
Scenario: Marguerite Roberts, according to the novel of Charles Portis
Production: Hall B. Wallis
Music: Elmer Bernstein
Photography: Lucien Ballard
Decorations: Walter H. Tyler
Costumes: Dorothy Jeakins
Country of origin: the United States
Formats: Color - 1,85:1 - Mono - 35mm
Kind: Western
Lasted: 115 min
Coming out date: June 11th 1969

Distribution

John Wayne: Rooster Cogburn
Kim Darby: Mattie Ross
Glenn Campbell: “The Ox”
Jeremy Slate: Emmett Quincy
Robert Duval: Ned Pepper
Refusals Hopper: Moon Garrett
Jeff Corey : Tom Chaney

Around film

In spite of an established notoriety, John Wayne, then 62 years old, obtains for this film his very first Oscar. He will again interpret the character of Cogburn in a bible and a rifle , realized by Stuart Millar, at the side of Katharine Hepburn.

Distinctions

Oscar of the cinema 1969: Better actor (John Wayne)
Golden Globes 1970: Better actor in a dramatic film (John Wayne)

External bond

Hundred dollars for a sheriff on Internet Movie Database
Test of the DVD and critical of film on DVDclassik

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