Since the movie was made in the 1970s and it was hard to watch the horses do stunts like that especially in a film made in that time period. Or were they trained?
shareThe only non-trained thing I saw was at the dugout, when Ned and his gang and running, Mexican Bob's horse falls...that wasn't planned.
share...The horse FELL DOWN. Know what happened after? It stood up. Yeah, imagine that - Animals that once thrived in the wild, ARE in fact durable enough to retain their health following an accidental fall. Even if the horse HAD been hurt, why would it now matter? It's been 42 years, the horse has been dead for decades - No pressing issue. You're dumbass, pointless, detective work only gives anti-PETA people like myself more ammo for the arguing.
"Oh yeah? FISTICUFFS."
Just as an aside to the OP. John Wayne used HIS own horse in all his movies. I believe is name was Bo. Even Little Blacky (Mattie's Horse) actually belonged to John Wayne.
shareI'm not saying you are incorrect as I certainly do not know the truth, but I would find it to be pretty incredible that his personal horse would have the same name as the horse in the novel and subsequent films!
The terrorists won a battle with America on 4/21/10 thanks to the cowards at Comedy Central
Why not? Maybe he named his personal horse after the one in the novel? Or, maybe just maybe, Bo is a fairly common name. I once had a Golden Retriever named Bo.
shareYou are absolutely right. A number of different stunt horses played the part of Blackie in the 1969 movie, none of them were owned by Wayne. Almost every web site about the movie points out that Blackie's face and leg markings change throughout the movie. John Wayne rode his own horse Dollar at the end of the movie but the tall horse he rides in the rest of the movie belonged to the head stunt coordinator. Wayne did actually do the fence jumping stunt himself.
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"Wayne did actually do the fence jumping stunt himself."
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In case you don't know, tripping a horse with a wire (which is what they did in westerns at that time) is abusive to a horse or a child, or an elderly person. Let me trip you, have you fall to the ground, and see how you like it! (Beings you think it's such a great thing.) Peta is trying to stop chickens from being burned alive (by a boiling process) to removed the feathers. Let's do that to you to see how much you appreciate what Peta is doing to remove suffering...
(Beings you seem to have been unable to learn empathy for other living things in your lifetime.)
I remember their stance about chickens, mainly because a former PETA president claimed the chickens killed in broilers in one year were more important than all the lives lost in the Holocaust. Everyone from Huffington Post to Breitbart has called out PETA on their questionable spending and high euthanization rates. Do you guys know where most of the money that actually goes into conservation comes from? Hunting. Meanwhile, the animal groups spend the money they collect on salaries, travel, and ads seeking more donations.
How much money did PETA take in last year from unsuspecting donors who helped pay for this mass carnage? $51,933,001: $50,449,023 in contributions, $627,336 in merchandise sales, and $856,642 in interest and dividends. They finished the year with $4,551,786 more in the bank than they started, after expenses. They did not see fit to use some of that to comprehensively promote animals for adoption or to provide veterinary care for the animals who needed it.
By contrast, the Lynchburg Humane Society, also in Virginia, took in about the same number of animals as PETA but saved 94% and without PETA’s millions. Seagoville Animal Services in Texas took in 1/3 of the numbers (about 700 animals) but only 1/20th of 1% of the amount of money that PETA did, saving 99% of them on a paltry $29,700 budget. In fact, hundreds of cities and towns across America are saving over 90% of the animals and doing so on a fraction of PETA’s wealth. ---Nathan Winograd
In the interviews of the DVD the horse that played Bo relates that his character recovered well from his wounds and went on to be the equine star of many silent movies, especially in the Tom Mixx movies. The unnamed horse that was shot out from under Tom Pepper, last seen semi-submerged in the river, enjoyed his aquatic experiences so much that he went on to be a renowned SCUBA filmographer and is responsible for the term "seahorse" in modern parlance. Finally, "Little Blackie" became a lawyer for the ACLU and devoted his career to removing negative stereotypical names for non-humans in motion pictures. His current suit against the motion picture industry is against the makers of Black Swan.
share5 years late, but daaammm, that was funny!
shareLocation shooting was done in the fall of 1968, and the movie was released in the summer of 1969. 90% of what you see on the screen was filmed within a 30 mile radius of Ridgway, Colorado.
shareI was a high school student in Telluride Colorado and got a job as an extra in the film. It is I with my lemon blond hair in the early hanging scene, losing my hat in the children's playground scene near the gallows. I got another scene which was cut from the final movie. I was told I could not appear without a SAG card, which is a lie. My lines:
"Hang 'em. Hang 'em NOW"!!!
It was to show that the old west was so merciless that a child could cheer on the gruesome act such as a hanging.
"When you throw dirt, you lose ground" --old proverbshare
That's cool. I love it when folks in these old films swing by imdb and post their stories.
shareHorses are well taken care of. What about the poor rattlesnake she kept hitting with that branch in the pit? What about the rat he shot?
sharethe rat had a writ on it, so it was justified.
"she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever."
nothing but morons..."were animals hurt during this movie?".....yes, 3 squirrels and a chipmonk bit the dust mame....sorry to inform you of this.......BTW, didn't you see the headlines in the newspapers after this movie was filmed? ...way back when......" 9 Horses Killed During Filming of True Grit Western ".....
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These old cowboy movies have the best posts ever! There's nothing like the rantings and ravings of old coots and curmudgeons.
shareThere's nothing like the rantings and ravings of old coots and curmudgeons.
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The only thing better than "the rantings and ravings of old coots and curmudgeons" is the taste of deep fried young whippersnapper. It's truly amazing how a generation that is completely lacking in taste can have the flavor of chicken.
You forget the countless chickens and cows that were slaughter to feed the cast and crew... Hmmm. steak... When and animal asks for insurance I'll consider that we need to worry about them... until that time they are just here to be raised and used.
shareOne of my FAVORITE lines in the movie!
"Now it's a rat's writ, writ for a rat, & this is lawful service of same." <BLAM!>
Eight divided by one-half equals four squared!
Most likely.
shareWho gives a *beep* they were bought and payed for .People need to mind there own business and how a person treats his or her own property is there business !
shareWho gives a *beep* they were bought and payed for .People need to mind there own business and how a person treats his or her own property is there business !
Calm down, rideo. Wingman is Michael Vick he might toss you to his dogs and beat to death those who don't harm you.
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