The original “True Grit” movie is turning 50. A film that John Wayne used as a vehicle to win his only Academy Award, “True Grit” was released June 11, 1969. Wayne, who starred as Rooster Cogburn in ...

An explosion, a conspiracy, and an unlikely duo on a mission to expose the truth.

The two versions of "True Grit" are like Athens, Greece, and Athens, Georgia: They've got the same name, but they're in totally different worlds. Yet for all their differences, both Westerns found ...

Our eyes, gestures, and tone bring us together in a more profound way than words alone. It’s why we look hopefully toward the return of in-person, face-to-face connection. When Mattie first meets ...

John Wayne took part in many iconic scenes throughout his 50-year career, but which of his big screen moments are the best of ...

There was a real-life Rooster. The discovery was shared in 2012 by Oklahoma author Brett Cogburn, a Western novelist whose only nonfiction book is titled “Rooster: The Life and Times of the Real ...

When Mattie first meets Rooster Cogburn near the beginning of True Grit, the Coen brothers' most recent creation, he is suffering the after(?)effects of a drinking episode, laying out on a cot behind ...