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This 15-Year-Old Western Remake Was Closer to the Book Than the Original

1969's Western True Grit was an iconic role for long-time on-screen gunslinger John Wayne. He played a character largely ...
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John Wayne And Katharine Hepburn Had Intense Chemistry In This '70s Western Streaming On Netflix

John Wayne's Rooster Cogburn looks down in closeup in Rooster Cogburn - Universal Pictures In 1975, John Wayne made "Rooster Cogburn," a sequel to the Oscar-winning "True Grit." Sadly, it was met with ...
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John Wayne's Crazy Shootout With Bandits Rooster Cogburn (1975)

Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) traps a group of bandits and gets back a stolen shipment. Get your Action Pick! Watch Rooster Cogburn Here: <a ...
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'True Grit' movie turns 50: Oklahoma author revisits 'real' Rooster Cogburn

There was a real-life Rooster. The discovery was shared in 2012 by Oklahoma author Brett Cogburn, a Western novelist whose only nonfiction book is titled “Rooster: The Life and Times of the Real ...
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John Wayne Preferred the ‘Uplifting’ ‘True Grit’ Ending Compared to the Book’s Original Ending

True Grit saw Wayne play the legendary Rooster Cogburn, a frequently inebriated and stern U.S. marshal, who 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) seeks out after her father’s murder. Together, they hunt ...
The Gazette

Colorado town has plenty of “true grit”

Location of the cemetery at Mattie’s Ranch. You can see the fence outlining the family graveyard where Mattie tells Rooster he has a plot. (Marianne Mogon) In June of 1969, Paramount Pictures released ...