Pepper and his gang get there first, capturing her. When he comes toward her menacingly, she shoots Chaney with her father’s Colt Dragoon, injuring him and calling out to her partners. Fetching water one morning, Mattie finds herself face-to-face with Chaney in a stream. Cogburn tries to persuade Mattie to stay at McAlester’s, but she refuses. McAlester, played by Stuart Randall) with the dead bodies. Cogburn, La Boeuf, and Mattie make their way to McAlester’s store (owned by J.J.

A firefight ensues, during which Cogburn and La Boeuf kill two of the gang, but Pepper and the rest of his men escape unharmed. Upon arriving, Pepper is suspicious and succeeds in drawing La Boeuf’s fire, who blows their planned ambush by shooting and killing Pepper’s horse. In the remaining minute before Moon dies, he reveals that Pepper and his gang are due at the cabin that night to get fresh mounts. In terrible pain and about to talk, Moon is stabbed by Quincy, who is then killed by Cogburn. Moon’s leg is injured and Cogburn uses the injury as leverage to get information about Lucky Ned. Cogburn captures and interrogates the two men. The two try to ditch Mattie, but she catches up and is permitted to ride along.Īfter several days, the three discover horse thieves Emmett Quincy ( Jeremy Slate) and Moon ( Dennis Hopper), who are waiting for Ned Pepper at a remote dugout cabin. She gives him a payment to track and capture Chaney, who has taken up with outlaw “Lucky” Ned Pepper ( Robert Duvall) in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma).Ī young Texas Ranger, La Boeuf ( Glen Campbell), is also pursuing Chaney and joins forces with Cogburn, despite Mattie’s protest. Mattie earns the money to pay his fee by shrewdly horse trading with Colonel Stonehill ( Strother Martin). Cogburn ( John Wayne) to bring Chaney in, because Mattie’s heard that Cogburn has “true grit”. Ross’s young daughter, Mattie ( Kim Darby), travels to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where she hires aging U.S. Frank Ross ( John Pickard) is murdered by his hired hand, Tom Chaney ( Jeff Corey).

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