"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."
John Wayne
as Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
Katharine Hepburn
as Eula Goodnight
Anthony Zerbe
as Breed
Richard Jordan
as Hawk
John McIntire
as Judge Parker
Paul Koslo
as Luke
Jack Colvin
as Red
Jon Lormer
as Rev. Goodnight
Richard Romancito
as Wolf
Lane Smith
as Leroy
Tommy Lee
as Chen Lee
Warren Vanders
as Baghy
Jerry Gatlin
as Nose
Strother Martin
as Shanghai McCoy
Chuck Hayward
as Jerry (uncredited)
Andrew Prine
as Fiona's Husband (uncredited)
Charles Weldon
as Bailiff (uncredited)
Stuart Millar
Director
Richard Hashimoto
Second Assistant Director
William W. Gray
Production Manager
Joseph Lenzi
First Assistant Director
Michael D. Moore
Second Unit Director
Stunt Coordinator
Luster Bayless
Costume Design
Edith Head
Leonard S. Petterson
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Charles Portis
Characters
Martha Hyer
Writer
Robert Swink
Editor
Laurence Rosenthal
Original Music Composer
E. Preston Ames
Art Direction
Harry Stradling Jr.
Director of Photography
Paul Nathan
Associate Producer
Hal B. Wallis
Producer
George R. Nelson
Set Decoration
Jerry Brutsche
Stunts
Chuck Roberson
Stunt Double
Mickey Gilbert
Gary McLarty
Kevin N. Johnston
Gary Combs
Quentin Dickey
Dave Grayson
Makeup Artist
Emile LaVigne
Rexford L. Metz
Second Unit Director of Photography
Barbara Ronci
Hairdresser
George Robotham
Lon Bentley
Jerry Summers
John R. Carter
Sound
Jack McMaster
Special Effects