A Favorite Movie Remade

"True Grit" was one of my favorite movies. The movie was made in 1969 and starred John Wayne. It was one amongst a fairly thin book of movies that our parents ever took us to as a family. Other titles we saw included, "The Sound of Music", "Mary Poppins", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "Finian's Rainbow", "The King and I", "Jeremiah Johnson", "My Fair Lady", and the drive-in specials "Planet of the Apes" and "Cat Baloo". I'm sure that I've missed a couple and hope that my sisters and brother might help to remember those.

Anyways, it's a fair assortment of decent movies but I'll have to pick "True Grit" as my number one. The new "True Grit" due out this winter will have trouble matching up to the original, but I wish them luck and intend to go see it. The original movie featured John Wayne in what many people considered to be his finest role. Also, the original was loaded with great dialogue and a part of that dialogue has endured in my memory though I never quite knew what it meant. With his gang in tow, the bad-gun Ned (Robert Duvall) scoffs at Rooster's (John Wayne) challenge by saying "What's your intention, Rooster? You think one on four is a dog-fall?"

So, what the heck is a dog-fall? I found it's definition on this interesting site (it's a time suck):

http://www.metaphordogs.org/Dogs/contents.html

And, here's the web address to the original movie trailer:

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3741254425/