After 40 years in films, John Wayne finally won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn, a fat, over-the-hill, one-eyed, drunken marshal.
Based on a novel by Charles Portis, True Grit is supposed to be a story about a 14-year-old girl called Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) from Yell County, Arkansas, who hires a lawman to find her father’s killer. Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey). In reality, this is a film about John Wayne – and it’s a delight.
Cogburn joins forces with a young, good looking Texas Ranger named La Boeuf (singer Glen Campbell), who is also pursuing Chaney on a murder charge and the trio head out for Indian territory to confront a dozen crooks of various hues of wickedness and weirdness.
Wayne assumed the character of the one-eyed marshal again in Rooster Cogburn in 1975 with Katharine Hepburn.
Rooster Cogburn
John Wayne Mattie Ross
Kim Darby La Boeuf
Glen Campbell Ned Pepper
Robert Duvall Emmett Quincy
Jeremy Slate Tom Chaney
Jeff Corey Moon
Dennis Hopper Goudy
Alfred Ryder Col. G. Stonehill
Strother Martin Capt. Boots Finch
Ron Soble Lawyer Daggett
John Fielder Judge Parker
James Westerfield Sheriff
John Doucette Barlow
Donald Woods Mrs Floyd
Edith Atwater Dirty Bob
Carlos Rivas Mrs Bagby
Isabel Boniface Chen Lee
H.W. Gim Frank Ross
John Pickard Mrs Ross
Elizabeth Harrower Yarnell
Ken Renard Harold Parmalee
Jay Ripley Farrell Parmalee
Kenneth Becker
Wayne assumed the character of the one-eyed marshal again in Rooster Cogburn in 1975 with Katharine Hepburn.
Moon
