Rooster Cogburn: Directed by Stuart Millar. With John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan. Marshal Rooster Cogburn unwillingly teams up with Eula Goodnight to track down her father's murderers.

Rooster Cogburn : Ma'am, I don't know much about thoroughbreds - horses or women! Them that I did know, I never liked. They're too nervous and spooky; they scare me. But you're one high-bred filly that don't. 'Course, I don't know what you're talking about half the time!

Rooster Cogburn : You can tell him to his face, you can spit in his eye, you can make him eat sand out of the road, you can shoot him in the foot and I'll hold him for you - but first we gotta catch him.

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John Wayne found making the film to be very difficult, particularly since he had just finished a grueling shoot on Brannigan (1975) and recovered from pneumonia.

Rooster Cogburn: Directed by Stuart Millar. With John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan. Marshal Rooster Cogburn unwillingly teams up with Eula Goodnight to track down her father's murderers.

Movie star John Wayne created an iconic character in True Grit ‘s Rooster Cogburn. The eyepatch-wearing U.S. marshal became a legendary figure of cinema, continuing to influence contemporary feature films and their characters.

True Grit: Directed by Henry Hathaway. With John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate. A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.

He received the Best Actor nomination for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and finally got the Oscar for his role as one-eyed Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (1969). A Congressional Gold Medal was struck in his honor in 1979.

Rooster Cogburn (1975) - During filming John Wayne was injured teaching his eight-year-old daughter to play golf, but fortunately his eye patch concealed the mark.