![]() The scene was filmed on the Colorado River, west of Lampasas and Burnet on Highway 281, to the north of Blanco. ![]() Designated a Texas Historic Landmark in 1972, it’s now a multi-use building being leased to business tenants and rented out for special events.Īfter much arguing and haggling, Mattie and Rooster, together with Texas Ranger LaBoeuf ( Matt Damon) head off into the lawless territory in pursuit of Chaney.ĭetermined not to be left behind at the ferry crossing, Mattie shows her own grit by riding her pony Blackie across the river. It’s the Old Blanco County Courthouse, 310 Main Street at 3rd Street in Blanco, on Route 281 in the Texas hill country, about 90 miles to the southwest.īuilt in 1886, the building has seen service as a school, a bank, a museum, restaurant and hospital. The exterior of the 'Monarch' was just a façade built for the production but the interior, where Maddie is obliged to share a bed with a snoring, blanket-hogging old woman, is that of the 1901 Victorian house at 500 East Davilla Street on the corner of North Gabriel Street.ĭetermined to hire the meanest US Marshall in town to track down Tom Chaney ( Josh Brolin), her father’s murderer, Mattie finds Reuben ‘Rooster’ Cogburn ( Jeff Bridges) giving evidence in the local courthouse. Stonehill, Mattie can afford a room in the town's boarding house. True Grit film location: the interior of the 'Monarch' boarding house: East Davilla Street, Granger, Texas | Photograph: Google Maps Stonehill’s business, where Mattie ( Hailee Steinfeld) demonstrates her formidable bargaining skills over the ponies bought by her late father, was created in an empty lot that had been an auto body repair shop. The wide streets and turn-of-the-century brick buildings were supplemented with wooden frontages to fill the gaps and to disguise modern properties.Ĭol. The main street of the frontier town on the edge of what was the Indian Nation is West Davilla Street, the main thoroughfare of Granger, a quiet agricultural community on Highway 95, about 40 miles northeast of Austin, Texas. There’s no Ross ranch this time, the film opening with narration by Mattie and her arrival in ‘Fort Smith, Arkansas’. ![]() The story is much the same, but the Coens revel in the quirky period dialogue, restore the barren wintry setting and, not surprisingly, the darker humour. Not a remake of the 1969 True Grit, with John Wayne, but a more faithful adaptation of Charles Portis’s 1968 novel, filmed by Joel and Ethan Coen in West Texas and New Mexico. Meanwhile stay safe and travel the world online. We apologise and, as soon as travel restrictions are lifted, will return to posting original photographs. * During the current situation, we're relying more than usual on Google Maps images. ![]()
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