I hope everyone is enjoying the Film Facts, which have been compiled by Clive Woollands (member chisum2), who has given me permission to copy and paste them from his Yahoo forum. In the next week or two, he will be adding them to the respective movie thread himself, and continuing about every other week.
Here we go again. I have another film fact for you. If you have
anything to add to these facts, please do so.
Rooster Cogburn.
Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Screenplay: Martin Julien. Cinematographer:
Harry Stradling Jnr. Art director: Preston Ames. Composer: Laurence
Rosenthal. Editor: Robert Swink. Costume designers: Edith Head,
Luster Bayliss. Distribution: Universal Pictures. Location: Oregon,
USA. Box office takings (US): $8 million. Date of production: 1975.
Jon Lormer, who plays the Reverend Goodnight, was only a year older than Katherine Hepburn, who played his daughter.
The name on the screenplay credit is Martin Julien, but that is actually a pseudonym used by producer Hal Wallis's wife, Martha Hyer.
Rooster's ill-fated deputy in the opening sequence was played by stuntman and actor Richard Farnsworth, but his scenes with Wayne were all cut. Farnsworth went on to find fame in later life as the star on The Straight Story (1999).
The film was also known as Rooster Cogburn and the Lady, a fact that has led some people to mistakenly believe that there were 3 Cogburn films and not 2.
During shooting Wayne suffered a cut eyebrow and a black eye after trying to teach his 8-year-old daughter Marisa how to swing a golf club (he didn't step back quickly enough when she tried to swing). Fortunately, the damage was to his left eye and the patch he had to wear as Rooster covered it up nicely.
