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