Rooster Cogburn was originally created by Charles Portis in his 1968 novel True Grit, which was first adapted into a film of the same name in 1969. The film was directed by Henry Hathaway, following a ...

A band of drunken thugs overruns a small village in the Indian Nation that is run by Minister Goodnight and his daughter Eula and proceed to violate and kill the villagers. Miss Goodnight teams up ...

John Wayne worked with some of the greatest actors of his generation, but according to the man himself, only three of them met him on his level.

When John Wayne named his personal favorite top five out of the movies he’d starred in, he left out the classic that finally earned him an Academy Award: 1969’s True Grit. Over the course of ...

Being the outspoken sort, John Wayne couldn't help but comment on what he considered perhaps the worst Western he'd ever ...

Whatever the shortcomings of John Wayne’s take on Rooster Cogburn, the Duke excelled at playing the broken-down Civil War vet Ethan Edwards in The Searchers, directed by John Ford.

When the battle of the sexes is waged in the hen house. the fate of the rooster is nothing to crow about. While most backyard chicken owners are excited to have hens, “roos” are seldom as welcome.