In True Grit, the teenage protagonist, on the trail of her father’s killer, would bluff people who tried to block her with the impending wrath of lawyer J. Noble Daggett.Eventually, a U.S. Marshal ...

In deciding what to call ourselves, film buffs and those old enough to remember the original True Grit (1969) may recall the character Mattie Ross. In seeking to avenge her father’s killing, she ...