comparative, comparative degree - the comparative form of an adjective or adverb; `faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'; `less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous'; `more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely'.
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Frank Ross (John Pickard) is murdered by his hired hand, Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Ross' daughter, Mattie (Kim Darby), hires aging U.S. Marshal Reuben Rooster J. Cogburn (John Wayne) to bring Chaney in. Mattie has heard that Cogburn has true grit. She gives him a down payment to track and capture Chaney, who has taken up with Lucky Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall) in Indian Territory (Oklahoma).