Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Ron Yearwood This is a great and fun old western. She's awesome and The Duke is at his late career best as Rooster Cogburn. It's not a comedy but there's lots of laughs in this one. Some very cute scenes between the two of them and also a fun adventure to boot.

Michael_Elliott Rooster Cogburn (1975)** 1/2 (out of 4)After being fired for violent conduct, Marshall Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) is asked by Judge Parker (John McIntire) to track down a gang who stole some explosives in order to rob a bank. Cogburn heads out and runs into missionary Eula (Katharine Hepburn) whose father was killed by the gang. She demands to go with Cogburn and the two head out for revenge.ROOSTER COGBURN isn't the best movie out there but it's certainly entertaining enough thanks in large part to its two legendary stars as well as some nice supporting performances. I really can't blame the filmmakers for bringing Wayne back in his Oscar-winning role from TRUE GRIT but I do question why they also seemed to want to remake THE African QUEEN since Hepburn is playing the same type of role and the two films share some other connections.With all of that said, this here is the basic type of Western that you'd expect to see Wayne doing. He plays that lovable, tough-as-nails character who does things his way and usually that means killing off the bad guys. I must admit that I wasn't crazy for Hepburns's role here but there's no question that she's good in it and the two stars have some nice chemistry. The two of them work extremely well together and have some nice back-and-forth as they throw insults and quotes off one another.The film benefits from having some nice action as well including the finale, which I won't spoil but there's some nice tension as well as some loud action. The cinematography is quite good and technically speaking this is a well-made film. Still, I just wish something more had been done with the story and I think the attempt at remaking THE African QUEEN didn't help matters. Still, it's Wayne and Hepburn and that's worth watching.

peter-2749 Looking at some of the other reviews on here I am prone to thinking that I must have watched a different film!Others have criticised the plot but I thought that this was actually one of the best parts of the film! It is no worse than many other Westerns made in the previous 40 years and certainly feasible and not BADLY written(although no "High Noon", or "Destry").The sad thing for me however was watching the two main stars who appeared to be both well past their prime. Although in the case of Wayne the script eludes to this with the Cogburn character being described as "having let himself" and being "old" in no way am I saying that we should not have "old" actors on screen. Indeed I would welcome it. Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Clint Eastwood to name but three have all improved with age but both Wayne and Hepburn did not with this one.For large parts of the film it looked like they were simply reading the script and both of them were clearly having difficulty in merely getting up and walking. (Yet miraculously could ride their horses at break-neck speed and operate a raft with amazing dexterity). On top of this there were some really gaping holes in credulity: Hepburn was 68 when this film was made but one of the main elements of the storyline is that her father is killed (played by Jon Lormer who was actually only a year older than she was)! The average life expectancy for white males in the 1880s in America was under 40! (Even less in "The West") and whilst people did live into old-age, they certainly would not have been as "nimble" as Lormer was (in comparison to the leads).I thought that both of the main stars were wooden and overall film was rather "clunky". Anthony Zerbe played his part well but even here was let down but the fact that every time I looked at him I just thought of Clint Eastwood due to the laziness of the costume department!Do yourself a favour and give this one a miss. If you do want to see these stars at their best, watch Wayne in "True Grit" and Hepburn in the "African Queen" instead.

FightingWesterner Though most will probably disagree, I thought this was a little better than True Grit. Seeing John Wayne spoof himself is still a lot of fun. This time around there's actually quite a bit of chemistry between him and Katherine Hepburn, much more so than Wayne and Kim Darby in the first film. Also, the pace is a little faster and the villains played by Richard Jordan, Anthony Zerbe, and Paul Koslo, much nastier.The kid who plays Wolf, the Indian boy, is quite appealing and a pretty good little actor. It's too bad he didn't become a bigger star, the same for Koslo, who's really great here at portraying an oily weasel and in Mr. Majestyk with Charles Bronson.The climax is great and it's pretty cool seeing the Duke firing a machine gun!