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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play True Grit In 1970 John Wayne earned an Academy Award for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed US Marshal Rooster Cogburn The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings When Cogburn&39;s employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter sparks fly And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when the inexperienced but enthusiastic Texas Ranger (Glen Campbell) joins the party Laughter and tears punctuate the wild action in this extraordinary Western which features performances by Robert Duvall and Strother Martin The Sons Of Katie Elder Katie Elder bore four sons The day she is buried they all return home to Clearwater Texas to pay their last respects John Wayne is the eldest and toughest son the gunslinger Tom (Dean Martin) is good with a deck of cards and good with a gun when he has to be Matt (Earl Holliman) is the quiet one - nobody ever called him yellow twice Bud (Michael Anderson Jr) is the youngest Any hope for respectability lies with him Directed by Henry Hathaway (True Grit) an acknowledged master of the western the story has a dual theme; not only is this a he-mans story but it is also a drama of the maternal influence of Katie Elder movingly portrayed from beginning to conclusion The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Ranking with Stagecoach as one of the greatest of its genre &39;The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance&39; is the modern-day Western to beat all Westerns John Ford whose very name is synonymous with Westerns directed the ideal cast Jimmy Stewart plays the bungling but charming big-city lawyer determined to rid the fair village of Shinbone of its number one nuisance and Bad Man Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) And as if all that weren&39;t enough the biggest star that ever aimed a six-shooter plays the Man of the title John Wayne Super-sincere Stewart and rugged rancher Wayne also share the same love interest (Vera Miles) One gets the gunman but the other gets the gal Actors John Wayne Glen Campbell Kim Darby Jeremy Slate & Robert DuvallDirector Henry HathawayCertificate PGScreen WidescreenLanguages EnglishDuration 5 hours and 54 minutes (approx)

Three classic westerns starring John Wayne. In 'True Grit' (1969), after her father is murdered by outlaw Tom Chancey (Jeff Corey), 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) attempts to track down the killer. She goes to a paunchy, one-eyed marshall (Wayne), a man of 'true grit', and together they pursue Chancey into Native American territory. They are joined by La Boeuf (Glen Campbell), a ranger who is hoping to collect the reward on another of Chancey's murders. In 'The Sons of Katie Elder' (1965), four sons are re-united when they return home to Clearwater to bury their mother, Katie Elder. John Elder (Wayne) is the oldest brother, a gunslinger. Tom (Dean Martin) is next, a card sharp who shares his sibling's ability with a gun only when his back is to the wall. Matt (Earl Holliman) is the moody one, while the youngest is Bud (Michael Anderson Jr), upon whom the family's hopes of respectability rest. Finally, in 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Vance' (1962), big-city lawyer Ransom (James Stewart) heads into the Wild West outpost of Shinbone to bring local outlaw Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) to justice. En route, he is met by a posse led by Valance, who beat him within an inch of his life. Passing cowboy Tom Doniphon (Wayne) rescues Ransom, gets him set up in Shinbone, and supports his efforts to be elected sheriff. Meanwhile, he also attempts to teach his clumsy protege the fundamentals of gunslinging, so that Valance may at last be brought to book.