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 ...

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 ...

A film that John Wayne used as a vehicle to win his only Academy Award, “True Grit” was released June 11, 1969. Wayne, who starred as Rooster Cogburn in the movie, died exactly 10 years later ...

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

Since then, Wayne usually played cowboys, soldiers, and other assorted heroes. True Grit's Rooster Cogburn was an aging, ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Wayne was one of the biggest movie stars in the history of the medium, but because he reigned during the 1940s, 1950s, and some of the 1960s, he was not a beneficiary of franchise filmmaking.