Fort Smith Goes to the Movies

No diehard movie fan can overlook Fort Smith as a setting for some of the great westerns of the silver screen. Best remembered for John Wayne’s performance as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit, a movie about the life and times of a deputy marshal out of Judge Parker’s court (and remade by the Cohn Brothers with Jeff Bridges in 2010), Fort Smith has provided the story lines and characters for more than a score of films.