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.
Acting
Wayne and Hepburn's bickering chemistry—two titans clearly not acting.
Stunts
Practical whitewater rafting with actual explosives, because 1975.
Director
Stuart Millar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wayne and Hepburn famously clashed on set; she insisted on multiple takes, he did one and moved on. The tension you see? Real.
This was Hepburn's only Western—she took the role specifically to work with Wayne, then spent the shoot wishing she hadn't. The film still outgrossed every other Wayne movie that decade.
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