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Summary: Funny western as well as a action-packed one
Review: "Rooster Cogburn" is one of the best westerns ever made. It has a lot of funny parts, and a lot of action. However, Maltin says that this is a dull western. He's wrong. If he'd only concentrated on the movie. Well, wether he thinks this is a bad movie or not, I HIGHLY reccomend this to any Wayne fan.
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Summary: Funny western as well as a action-packed one
Review: "Rooster Cogburn" is one of the best westerns ever made. It has a lot of funny parts, and a lot of action. However, Maltin says that this is a dull western. He's wrong. If he'd only concentrated on the movie. Well, wether he thinks this is a bad movie or not, I HIGHLY reccomend this to any Wayne fan.
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Summary: Two great actors and a good story
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How can you beat two great actors and a great story?
John Wayne and Katie Hepburn, both mature and at the top of their form, and an interesting story with believable 'bad guys.' This was pure entertainment, shot in the wilds of Oregon--my home state. I loved it! Joseph (Joe) Pierre
author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books
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Summary: Wasted Plot??/ A very poor critic.
Review: How were John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn wasted superstars in this movie? How is an old Marshall trying to prove his worth a dull plot? What an absurd review. Watch the movie. It is a touching story with an excellent supporting female character!
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Summary: A sequel that defies conventional wisdom
Review: I actually prefer this movie to the first appearance of Wayne as Cogburn, "True Grit," even though he got the Oscar for that while this one seems to have sunk with hardly a critical trace. A sort of Western remake of "The African Queen" (complete with Katie Hepburn as a strait-laced spinster), with murderous outlaws taking the place of the Nazis, it finds Rooster unwillingly joining up with missionary's daughter Eula Goodnight ("Sister," as he calls her) to catch her father's murderers, who happen to be the same gang of ordnance-hijackers he was sent out from Fort Smith to apprehend. Though played much more for laughs than its predecessor (here, as in "McLintock" and "Donovan's Reef," Wayne clearly displays an unmistakeable gift for comedy), it's not without either headlong action, taut suspense, or sexual tension. Admittedly I'm not sure there are any river gorges like these in the *real* (former) Indian Territory, but who cares when the scenery is so breathtaking? And there's a definite advantage to starting a script from scratch rather than trying to translate Charles Portis's probably-authentic but somehow not-quite-flavorful-enough dialogue to film. While I never bothered to add "True Grit" to my permanent collection, this sequel is definitely a part of it.
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Summary: A sequel that defies conventional wisdom
Review: I actually prefer this movie to the first appearance of Wayne as Cogburn, "True Grit," even though he got the Oscar for that while this one seems to have sunk with hardly a critical trace. A sort of Western remake of "The African Queen" (complete with Katie Hepburn as a strait-laced spinster), with murderous outlaws taking the place of the Nazis, it finds Rooster unwillingly joining up with missionary's daughter Eula Goodnight ("Sister," as he calls her) to catch her father's murderers, who happen to be the same gang of ordnance-hijackers he was sent out from Fort Smith to apprehend. Though played much more for laughs than its predecessor (here, as in "McLintock" and "Donovan's Reef," Wayne clearly displays an unmistakeable gift for comedy), it's not without either headlong action, taut suspense, or sexual tension. Admittedly I'm not sure there are any river gorges like these in the *real* (former) Indian Territory, but who cares when the scenery is so breathtaking? And there's a definite advantage to starting a script from scratch rather than trying to translate Charles Portis's probably-authentic but somehow not-quite-flavorful-enough dialogue to film. While I never bothered to add "True Grit" to my permanent collection, this sequel is definitely a part of it.
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Summary: Better on DVD
Review: I have enjoyed this movie every time I have seen it. But only the DVD version gives the true beauty of the Rogue River region with spectacular panaramas of the river gorge and the mountains. The story starts off with aging marshal Rooster returning with 4 men draped over their saddles. The Judge reprimands Rooster for being trigger- happy and takes his badge. The next morning, after a military shipment of nitro glycerine and a Gatling gun are stolen, the Judge gives Rooster his badge back and sends him after the thieves. Charging him to "Bring them back ALIVE". The adventure begins!
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Summary: Quite a movie
Review: John Wayne shines once again as Rooster Cogburn but Katherine Hepburn provides the polish.
This movie is often refered to as John Wayne meets the African Queen. I disagree. The interaction between Wayne & Hepburn is the foundation of the movie, but I think the chemistry and clash between Hawk & Breed (Richard Jordan & Anthony Zerbe)is almost as interesting. Jordan & Zerbe are two character actors who are often overlooked. I liked the character of Hawk. I always thought He would make an adult version of him would make a good character in a western series if they ever came back. Strother Martin is a pleasure (as always) in a bit role as well. Hepburn & Wayne work well together, Hepburn is a different type of foil than O'Hara, of course the relative ages of the characters and the actors call for a more verbial and less sexual tension. Of course if it was O'Hara then she would have shot her father's killer herself. This movie is a sip of aged wine, one of the last movies Wayne appeared in. Enjoy the flavor
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Summary: Quite a movie
Review: John Wayne shines once again as Rooster Cogburn but Katherine Hepburn provides the polish. This movie is often refered to as John Wayne meets the African Queen. I disagree. The interaction between Wayne & Hepburn is the foundation of the movie, but I think the chemistry and clash between Hawk & Breed (Richard Jordan & Anthony Zerbe)is almost as interesting. Jordan & Zerbe are two character actors who are often overlooked. I liked the character of Hawk. I always thought He would make an adult version of him would make a good character in a western series if they ever came back. Strother Martin is a pleasure (as always) in a bit role as well. Hepburn & Wayne work well together, Hepburn is a different type of foil than O'Hara, of course the relative ages of the characters and the actors call for a more verbial and less sexual tension. Of course if it was O'Hara then she would have shot her father's killer herself. This movie is a sip of aged wine, one of the last movies Wayne appeared in. Enjoy the flavor
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Summary: Comparisons to True Grit
Review: RC has more humor than TG (plus).TG had better production values than RC (plus).TG had more memorable villains than RC (plus).The murdered father angle worked a little better for Kim Darby in TG than Kate Hepburn in RC (Hepburn and Lormer, as her dad, look around the same age) (plus) BTW to the poster who claimed TG was Bob Duvall's first movie---wrong. He was previously in To Kill A Mockingbird in 1962.
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