Where was True Grit (1969) filmed?
1969 film by Henry Hathaway
True Grit (1969) was filmed in Ouray County — 1 recorded filming location in the United States. It is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
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Filming locations
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🏙 Towns & cities
Ouray County
🇺🇸 United States
county in Colorado, United States
“Filming took place mainly in Ouray County, Colorado, in the vicinity of Ridgway (now the home of the True Grit Cafe), around the town of Montrose (in Montrose County), and the town of Ouray.” Wikipedia
Also per Wikipedia's Filming section
Wikipedia’s Filming section names 6 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏙 Towns & cities
Ridgway
🇺🇸 United States
town in Ouray County, Colorado, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Mammoth Lakes
🇺🇸 United States
town in Mono County, California, United States
“The scenes that take place at the "dugout" and along the creek where Quincy and Moon are killed, as well as the scene where Rooster carries Mattie on her horse Little Blackie after the snakebite, were filmed at Hot Creek on the east side of the Sierra Nevada near the town of Mammoth Lakes, California.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Montrose
🇺🇸 United States
city in and seat of Montrose County, Colorado, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Ouray
🇺🇸 United States
home rule municipality and county seat of Ouray County, Colorado, United States
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Mount Morrison
🇺🇸 United States
mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California
“Mount Morrison and Laurel Mountain form the backdrop above the creek.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Laurel Mountain
🇺🇸 United States
mountain in Mono County, California, United States of America
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in Colorado, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does True Grit have?
1 place recorded on Wikidata, and 6 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across the United States.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.