Michael John Petty is a Senior Features Writer for Collider who writes mostly about Westerns but also loves superheroes and supernatural thrillers.
The Big Picture It's rare that an iconic Western such as True Grit would find itself with a sequel. Most classics in the genre didn't get a traditional sequel, least of all with John Wayne reprising his role from the original. But that's exactly what 1975's Rooster Cogburn did, with Wayne back in the saddle as the titular U.S. Marshal. Wayne won an Academy Award for his role as Cogburn in 1969's True Grit , so it's no wonder that the Duke would come back for seconds.
While a sequel to True Grit might sound particularly exciting on paper Rooster Cogburn is basically the same movie as the first. Drunk and out of luck, Marshal Cogburn finds himself on another revenge quest, this time taking on the criminal known only as Hawk on behalf of spinster Miss Eula Goodnight , whose preacher father was killed by Hawk and his gang.
1:50 Related The Only Western With John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, & the Rest of Hollywood The box office hit had an A-list cast and was directed by three of the best filmmakers of their generation. Unlike his time with Mattie Ross in True Grit where he acted more like a father figure to the young girl, Rooster Cogburn shows a different side of Reuben J. Cogburn, namely a romantic one.
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