Since then, Wayne usually played cowboys, soldiers, and other assorted heroes. True Grit's Rooster Cogburn was an aging, drunk, grumpy old man and a break from type for John Wayne. True Grit ...

To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally ...

There aren't many movies that are remade to be better than the original release, but one that fits this criteria is True Grit ... been a fatal snakebite, Rooster Cogburn (Bridges) and Mattie ...

Back in 1969, John Wayne won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as one-eyed US Marshal Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. A few years later, The Duke starred in the sequel opposite Katharine Hepburn but ...