“When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.”
– Robert Duvall

TRUE GRIT / 1969

Might as well start with a Classic:
as the Badguy “Lucky Ned Pepper” in a John Wayne Movie!
Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) called it:
“Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!”

Luck had nothing to do with it.

LAWMAN / 1971

Next Duvall saddled up against
another Great Western Movie Star , Burt Lancaster.

Robert had to step down a notch behind Robert Ryan and Lee J. Cobb,
but he still got in his shots:

THE GREAT NORTHFIELD MINNESOTA RAID
/ 1972
Duvall moved closer to Stardom,
sharing the Bill pretty well equally with Robertson.

Superb Reviews:

“For my money, “The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid was one of the best films of 1972, and a lot of other critics liked it, too…”(Top Ten of the Year)- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid is easily the best western of the year…Kaufman directs its events with a rousing energy…”—Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune

“The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid…is a wonderfully lucid and vivid film about the time. The action is set in 1876…The film also has a contagious sense of amazement…Kaufman has made a beautiful, simple film about gaudiness and hope…The film is not really a Western: more than that.” –Penelope Gilliatt, The New Yorker

“Moments of pure farce…Curious, contradictory tenderness…Ambitious and inventive…”—Charles Champlin, LA Times

Coming: Robert Duvall / Cowboy / Part 2:
Lonesome Dove
Geronimo
Open Range
Broken Trail
Joe Kidd