True Grit (1969 film) Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Corey and Strother Martin. The title song, sung by Campbell, was also Oscar-nominated. "True Grit" was adapted again in 2010, starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Hailee Steinfeld. Frank Ross is murdered by his hired hand, Tom Chaney. Ross's young daughter, Mattie, travels to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where she hires aging U.S. Marshal Reuben "Rooster" J. Cogburn to bring Chaney in, raising his fee by shrewdly horse trading with Colonel Stonehill. Mattie has heard that Cogburn has "true grit." She gives him a payment to track and capture Chaney, who has taken up with outlaw
San Saba, Texas M. King Hubbert, opera singer Thomas Stewart, Aaron Behrens, front man for Austin-based music group Ghostland Observatory. The town is the former home of actor Christian Mixon. A memorial garden honoring the philanthropic work of his late wife Linda remains there. In "The San Saba Incident" (October 18, 1957) of the CBS Western television series "Trackdown" starring Robert Culp as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman, the Ranger transports four prisoners to the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. One of the convicts is a woman, Abby Lindon, played by Margaret Hayes. In the 2010 remake of "True Grit", Rooster Cogburn (played by