And without a narrative to help us along, we finally have to wonder why the movie was made. Now about that nitroglycerine. It's stolen from the government by a gang of outlaws, who need it to rob a bank, and then Wayne and Hepburn get it back again through trickery. Before long, they're on the raft in the river again, still with the nitro. And we have to wonder why.
There's no reason they couldn't just dump it, or hide it for the Army and tell them where it was except that the nitro's necessary for a climactic scene that doesn't seem to matter much.
The whole movie seems so contrived, so obviously a vehicle for its stars and for their former, happier roles, that finally we just get depressed. Talent shouldn't be thrown around like this. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Reviews Rooster Cogburn. Roger Ebert January 01, Now streaming on:.
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Stuart Millar. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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 with ruthless Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn to go after them and bring them to justice. The man of "True Grit" is back and look who's got him!
Did you know Edit. Trivia Richard Jordan later admitted he decided to overplay his part because he thought the movie was going to flop, and if anybody paid to see it then it would only be for the two stars. He also said he felt that Katharine Hepburn was about to die at any minute - ironically, she outlived him by a decade. Goofs In one scene, the Indian boy, Wolf, asks Rooster Cogburn if he ever ran into Billy the Kid or Jesse James, which Cogburn denied; however, Cogburn served with Quantrill's Raiders, a pro-Confederate guerrilla group in the Civil War, whose members included a then-teenage Jesse James--making it quite likely that Cogburn would've met him.
Quotes [last lines] Eula : Reuben, I have to say it. User reviews 71 Review. Top review. Wayne and Hepburn sparkle. Not the best John Wayne movie, but a damn good one. He and Hepburn make it move along, and you can see the genuine chemistry between their characters. As the movie progresses, you can feel him come to understand and respect her, and you can feel her becoming more fond of him, regardless of his faults. At the party to celebrate the last day of filming she told him, "I'm glad I didn't know you when you had two lungs, you must have been a real bastard.
Losing a hip has mellowed me, but you! There had been plans for a third film featuring the character Rooster Cogburn, to be entitled "Someday", but it was canceled when this movie proved to be only a moderate hit at the box office. In addition Paramount Pictures cited John Wayne 's age as too old to carry a successful movie, and waning audience interest in westerns.
John Wayne found making the film to be very difficult, particularly since he had just finished a grueling shoot on Brannigan and recovered from pneumonia. Director Stuart Millar insisted on so many takes that eventually John Wayne snapped, "God damn it Stuart, there's only so many times we can say these awful lines before they stop making any sense at all.
Jon Lormer , who plays Katharine Hepburn 's father, was only one year older than her. The film received terrible reviews on release. Many critics felt that it was too obviously derived from The African Queen , and that both John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn were too old for their parts.
The conversation that Rooster has with Wolf, about the small gun he loans him, is taken directly from an unused line of dialogue in the novel "True Grit". John Wayne originally wanted Ingrid Bergman as his co-star. He then suggested the character should be made younger and Mary Tyler Moore should be cast, saying he feared audiences would not want to see a movie where both stars were elderly.
Gim , who played the original Chen Lee, Rooster's Chinese companion, had died in the intervening years since the original film so the role was taken over by Tommy Lee , who died the year after this film was released. Towards the end of filming John Wayne fell ill with viral pneumonia.
He declined to promote the movie, claiming he was still ill. Hal B. Wallis later conceded in a letter to John Wayne that the choice of Stuart Millar as director had been a mistake. Millar never directed another theatrical film. During filming John Wayne was injured teaching his eight-year-old daughter to play golf, but fortunately his eye patch concealed the mark. He had been working on one lung for the past ten years and had great difficulty breathing due to the high altitude, often needing to breathe through an oxygen mask.
Although this film was promoted as "Rooster Cogburn John Wayne did not regard Stuart Millar as being capable of directing the film. Katharine Hepburn was actually very admiring of John Wayne despite opposing political beliefs. She later said she saw a lot of Spencer Tracy 's integrity in The Duke and was quite keen to find a project on which they could work together. At the time, she was the wife of producer Hal B. Wallis and wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym Martin Julien.
There was some surprise when Katharine Hepburn accepted the role of Eula Goodnight, since more than twenty years earlier she had turned down Geraldine Page 's role in Hondo because she would not work with John Wayne at the height of the blacklist. The official still photographer for this movie was Susie Tracy , daughter of Katharine Hepburn 's longtime lover Spencer Tracy. John Wayne had been seriously ill at the beginning of when he caught pneumonia in London after appearing on Parkinson and The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour He began coughing so hard that he damaged a valve in his heart, although this would not be diagnosed until
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