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Rooster Cogburn

Movie·1975·Adventure, Drama, Western·1h 48m·6.5 (218)·Directed by Stuart Millar

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After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.

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John WayneJohn WayneReuben J. "Rooster" CogburnKatharine HepburnKatharine HepburnEula GoodnightAnthony ZerbeAnthony ZerbeBreedRichard JordanRichard JordanHawkJohn McIntireJohn McIntireJudge ParkerPaul KosloPaul KosloLukeJack ColvinJack ColvinRedJon LormerJon LormerRev. Goodnight

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