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Released
1975 · FILM

Rooster Cogburn

A washed-up U.S. Marshal teams up with a determined spinster to track down a band of violent outlaws who killed her father and left a town in ruin.

“The man of "True Grit" is back and look who's got him!”

Directed by
Stuart Millar
Written by
Charles Portis, Martha Hyer
Runtime
108 min
AdventureDramaWestern

Synopsis

When a group of inebriated thugs takes over a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and assaulting the women, Eula Goodnight seeks the help of U.S. Marshal Cogburn to track them down and hold her father's killers accountable.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robert SwinkShot by Harry Stradling JrScored by Laurence Rosenthal

Box Office

1975 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$17.6M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$17.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Mit Dynamit und frommen Sprüchende
  • El alguacil del diabloes
  • Une bible et un fusilfr
  • Torna "El Grinta"it
  • Torna El Grintait

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