Rooster Cogburn
Dir: Stuart Millar
1975
****
I liked Rooster Cogburn very much. It's a different type of film to True Grit but The Duke is on just as good form as he was then and here you get a equally great performance from Katharine Hepburn. Watching the pair act off one another is an absolute joy, it may not be an amazing story but the performances more than make up for it. It's one of those films that, unlike True Grit, can never be remade, as the marriage of Hepburn and Wayne make it an original classic. I'm surprised that both director and screenwriter were replaced for the second film but it certainly isn't just a cash in on the success of 1969's True Grit and it stands on its own merit.