True Grit (novel) was considered a needless reworking of the plot of "True Grit" combined with elements of "The African Queen". A made-for-television sequel aired in 1978 entitled "" and starring Warren Oates and Lisa Pelikan. The TV-movie featured more adventures of Rooster Cogburn and Mattie Ross. In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen released another film adaptation of the novel, also entitled "True Grit", with thirteen-year-old actress Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross, veteran actor Jeff Bridges playing Rooster Cogburn, Matt Damon as LaBoeuf, Barry Pepper as Lucky Ned, and Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney. Their version, focusing on Mattie's point of view, follows
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