Who remembers Rooster Cogburn saying "Fill your hand you SONOFABITCH!!"?

John Wayne was my hero and the only cowboy I ever loved. Poppy

Who can ever forget the best of the cowboys with John Wayne in

True Grit. He was one of a kind and lit up the scene when he came

on. He had a screen presence that was as big as all outdoors. He

set the tempo for his character actors and was the same man off

screen as he was in real life. A genuine humanitarian, and a true

American. There won't be anyone to fill his shoes. Not even his sons

came close.

That is one of my favorite moments in western movies

The thing that really made that scene work though was the earlier part of the movie where Rooster reminisces about his younger days. The time he was being pursued by a posse. he tells La boeuf or Mattie ,I'm not sure which,how he was exhausted and desperate he turned and charged with the reins in his teeth both guns blazing thinking he would go out fighting.

So when Rooster , faced again by seemingly insurmountable odds,uttered that line then put the reins in his teeth ,charged guns blazing. It was all I could do to restrain myself from jumping up out of my seat and cheering him on.

True Grit was also the film that made me a Robert Duval fan

John Wayne

Guess Ned pepper didnt believe John. " I'm done for Cogburn. I'm shot to pieces".

Bloom County

John Wayne in True Grit! Yeah! I call that big talk from a one eyed fat man. Ned Pepper aka Robert Duval.

I remember John Wayne, but not the details of that movie

John Wayne after the bad guys said"That's mighty bold talk for a one eyed fat man."

The Duke.