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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Henry Hathaway
Henry Hathaway is known for adapting True Grit, the book by Charles Portis published in 2014, for cinema.
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True Grit
Charles Portis, 1968
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Henry Hathaway, 1969
In 1880, Frank Ross, of Yell County, Arkansas, is murdered and robbed by his hired hand, Tom Chaney. Mattie has heard that Cogburn has ‘true grit’. She gives Cogburn a payment to track and capture Chaney, who has taken up with outlaw ‘Lucky’ Ned Pepper in Indian Territory. A young Texas Ranger, La Boeuf, is also pursuing Chaney and joins forces with Cogburn, despite Mattie’s protest.