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Rooster Cogburn, also known as Rooster Cogburn (...and the Lady), is a 1975 American Western film directed by Stuart Millar, and starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn. Written by Martha Hyer (who is credited as Martin Julien), based on the character Rooster Cogburn from Charles Portis ' 1968 Western novel True Grit, the film is a sequel to ...
- $10 million
- Laurence Rosenthal
- November 7, 1975
- Hal B. Wallis
A western adventure film based on a novel by Charles Portis, starring John Wayne as a ruthless marshal and Katharine Hepburn as a tough girl. They team up to pursue the killers of her father and face various dangers and challenges along the way.
- (13K)
- Stuart Millar
- PG
- Adventure, Drama, Western
Fourteen-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross hires Cogburn, a boozy, trigger-happy lawman, to go after outlaw Tom Chaney who has murdered her father. The bickering duo are accompanied on their quest by a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf who has been tracking Chaney for killing a Texas state senator.
- December 22, 2010
- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin
Reuben J. " Rooster " Cogburn is a fictional character who first appeared in the 1968 Charles Portis novel True Grit . Fictional character biography. Reuben Cogburn was born on July 15, 1825. Cogburn was a veteran of the American Civil War who served under Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill, where Cogburn lost his eye.
Find out who starred in and worked on the 1975 western film Rooster Cogburn, based on the novel True Grit. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers, and more on IMDb.
A ripoff of John Wayne's and Katharine Hepburn's previous roles in "The African Queen" and "True Grit", this movie is a Western action film with a contrived plot and a weak story. The reviewer criticizes the actors' chemistry, the dialog, and the nitroglycerine scenes. He compares the movie to the classics and criticizes its weaknesses.
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An aging U.S. Marshal and a minister's daughter join forces to catch a band of outlaws in this sequel to True Grit. Watch the trailer, read the synopsis, and see the cast and crew of Rooster Cogburn on Turner Classic Movies.
