But «True Grit» is more of a return to Charles Portis» source novel than a reboot of the John
Wayne oater.
12 Strong comes from real life — specifically a covert Green Berets operation that went down in Afghanistan shortly after the Twin Towers fell — but the movie plays like the squarest of John
Wayne oaters, riding tall in the saddle with a minimum of casualties.
Not exact matches
The Searchers is an entertaining Western by the quintessential
oater duo of director John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance) and star John
Wayne (The Quiet Man, Rio Bravo).