Rooster Cogburn: watch order

The movies in the series, sorted by release date. Total runtime: 5 h 29 min. The two westerns starring John Wayne as US Marshal 'Rooster' Cogburn

1. 
   Movie 1

   True Grit (1969)

   2 h 8 min · ★ 7.3

   The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of…

2. 
   Movie 2

   Rooster Cogburn (1975)

   1 h 48 min · ★ 6.4

   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…

3. 
   Movie 3

   True Grit: A Further Adventure (1978)

   1 h 33 min · ★ 5.8

   The further adventures of True Grit's Rooster Cogburn has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.