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Actors: John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Jordan, Anthony Zerbe, Strother Martin
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Rooster Cogburn |
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This is the second film of two, the first being True Grit, starring John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell and Robert Duvall. John Wayne plays the character that won him an Oscar after 50 years of film making.
John Wayne has used excessive force, according to Judge Parker, and has to turn in his marshal's badge and retire to his room back of Chin Lee's General Store with his confiscated moonshine to swill and his cat, General Sterling Price. He is feeling sorry for himself for a few days when Judge Parker comes to visit and plead with him to take his badge back and go after Hawk, the outlaw, and his gang, (his old friend, Breed, is running with the gang) and Hawk has been in Cogburn's sights for a long time.
Rooster is finally persuaded to go after the gang, which has ambushed a cavalry patrol and stolen nitro glycerine, which they are going to use to blow up a bank in the territory. Rooster plays hard to get until Judge Parker offers a raise in pay and full restoration to his marshal's job if he brings in Hawk and recovers the nitro. So, off he goes, but when he gets to Fort Ruby, where Hawk and his cutthroats have already been, tormenting the Indians there and murdering Miss Eulah Goodnight's (Kate Hepburn) father, the Rev. Goodnight and a young brave's father.
Cogburn comes upon the burned tee pees, and wreckage, and finds Miss Eulah and Wolf holding a funeral service for their slain fathers. Cogburn tells them that they have to pack up and go with him to a safer place. But Miss Eulah is a strong-willed person who refuses his orders until he threatens "brute force." Although she submits to his will initially, she threatens him that he will be sorry that he bullied her. She makes good her promise, refuses to go to the local trading post, borrows a Winchester carbine and her and Wolf go galloping after Marshall Cogburn, who is riding on after the robbers, thinking that he will be alone since he works best alone.
On the trail of the outlaws, and at a point where they are the prey rather than the pursuers, Miss Eulah and Wolf prove their worth to the marshal.
--kerry bulls, Resident Scholar
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Based on the character already appearing in Henry Hathaway's "True Grit", ROOSTER COGBURN is a western directed by Stuart Millar in 1975.
Marshall Rooster Cogburn is asked to find the outlaws who have stolen a waggon full of nitroglycerin from the army. Katharine Hepburn, a hard-edged teacher whose father has been murdered by the outlaws, will follow Rooster and share the dangers of this mission.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, the hero of the 1969 hit "True Grit," returned in this much weaker but okay 1975 sequel. Cogburn has been stripped of his badge for killing too many prisoners while bringing them to justice. He hears an old riding partner named Hawk (Jordan) and his gang stole a load of nitroglycerin and killed the feds who were guarding it, and Rooster gets the job of tracking him down. Meanwhile, Hawk and the boys have shot up, raped, and killed most of a village in the Indian Nation, including the Reverend George Goodnight. His daughter Eula (Hepburn) vows to track the killers down, so she teams up with Cogburn. The chemistry between the stars is pleasing, Jordan makes an excellent villain, and the Rogue and Deschutes River valleys of Oregon (where the film was shot) make the Oklahoma Territory badlands look a lot more beautiful than they probably are.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 33.3%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 43.3%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Western
Yes
Kind of western:
- hunting down outlaws
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 60's-90's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Hair color?
- white
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- fat (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
Forest?
Yes
Water?
Yes
Water:
- river
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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