Rooster Cogburn (film) that has hijacked a wagon shipment of nitroglycerin. He is helped by a spinster searching for her father's killer. "Rooster Cogburn" is a sequel to the 1969 film "True Grit", which won for Wayne his only Academy Award for Best Actor in 1970. Because of his drunkenness and questionable use of firearms, aging one-eyed (wearing a distinctive black eye patch) U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) in the Indian Territory (future Oklahoma) has been stripped of his badge by Judge Parker (John McIntire) at the territorial capital of Fort Smith, Arkansas for excessive violence fatness and drunkenness, complaining he had
Oscar Millard the deliriously bad John Wayne-Susan Hayward barbarian epic "The Conqueror" (1956), a film probably more famous now for filming in a nuclear bomb testing site and most of the cast and crew succumbing to early, cancer-related deaths. After that, Millard found consistent work on television, writing scripts for such shows as "Wagon Train", "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" for which his was awarded in 2013 by the Writers Guild of America (101 Best written TV Series) and "Twelve O'Clock High". Oscar Millard Oscar Millard (March 1, 1908 – December 7, 1990) was an English writer who found success in Hollywood when