Cogburn responds ... I wouldn’t want you to bury ’em if they wasn’t,” Rooster quipped back. True Grit sees Rooster describe Ned to Jeremy Slate’s Emmett Quincy, which further brings ...

John Wayne is one of the most iconic movie stars, with a career filled with classic films, but True Grit features the scene ...

John Wayne believed there was one role he was truly born to play - a character that became one of the most memorable parts of ...

Wayne was passionate about playing Cogburn after reading Portis’ novel. The actor enjoyed how Roberts’ True Grit screenplay uplifted the original source material, including a different ending ...

(L-R) Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross and Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit." Matt Damon as LaBeouf in "True Grit." (L-R) Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross, Matt Damon as LaBeouf and ...

Nobody else refers to Rooster Cogburn as having true grit. The Fort Smith policeman describes him as “a pitiless man—he loves to pull a cork.” But Mattie listens on another level ...

When Charles Portis published True Grit in 1968, the novel became a critically ... If we know how 14-year-old Mattie Ross hired Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed U.S. marshal with a drinking problem ...

The moral anchor of True Grit, and the character who embodies ... The young girl enlists the help of Rueben "Rooster" Cogburn (Jeff Bridges.) Bridges' Cogburn is a broken, conflicted, morally ...

often drunk marshal Rooster Cogburn, a role that earned him an Oscar nomination, Bridges speaks a dialect that’s almost, but not quite, entirely unlike English. Then again, True Grit’s ...

Second, there are those who are nostalgically fond of the defanged and more Cogburn-centric 1969 movie ... one-eyed, drunken Rooster. Third, there are those who have read the book and seen the ...