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 ...

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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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The real-life Franklin "Rooster" Cogburn was a cowboy ... in the 1969 and 2010 film adaptations of Charles Portis' novel True Grit. Here, Rooster's great-grandson explores the life and times ...

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 ...