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Quite a few scenes were also shot in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Bishop, California (oddly, Wayneâs âNorth To Alaskaâ was also shot, in part, there). Inevitably, there will be comparisons between each of the versions of âTrue Gritâ.
It was filmed on Davant Plantation in South Carolina. The main house where Robert Duvall and Gena Rowlands (Wyly and Georgia King) live was built in the 1820s. A former owner painted the murals on the walls in the 1940s. Screenwriter Callie Khouri intended for the movie to take place in Tennessee. But because Julia Roberts wasnât available until the fall, the filmmakers started looking further south for a location and ended up in South Carolina.