John Wayne's sequel to True Grit, Rooster Cogburn, seemed to have everything going for it — including an iconic co-star — but it was still a failure. When Wayne's The Big Trial flopped it set ...

In the film Rooster Cogburn, John Wayne revisits his Oscar-winning portrayal of the one-eyed, hard-drinking U.S. Marshal ...

In the film that won Wayne the Academy Award for Best Actor, Rooster Cogburn is the Duke at ... but at this point, John Wayne was essentially playing himself. Image Credit: 20th Century Fox.