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.

John Wayne
as Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn

Katharine Hepburn
as Eula Goodnight

Anthony Zerbe
as Breed

Richard Jordan
as Hawk

John McIntire
as Judge Parker

Paul Koslo
as Luke

Jack Colvin
as Red

Jon Lormer
as Rev. Goodnight

Richard Romancito
as Wolf

Lane Smith
as Leroy
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Stuart Millar must have had a great time directing this with Wayne reprising his "True Grit" character on the trail of some reprobates that robbed an army convoy of a wagon load of nitro. On their way to rob a bank, they stop at a mission run by the "Rev. Goodnight" and his daughter "Eula" (Hepburn)...