Q 01/05

Which 1903 film, made for the Edison company, is usually cited as the beginning of the Western genre?

A) The Great Train Robbery

B) The Covered Wagon

C) The Squaw Man

D) Hell's Hinges

Answer · why

A) The Great Train Robbery

The Great Train Robbery, directed by Edwin S. Porter for Edison in 1903, set the crime-pursuit-retribution pattern; outlaw Justus Barnes famously fire...

Q 02/05

Which 1939 John Ford film made John Wayne a mainstream star after a decade of headlining B-Westerns?

A) Red River

B) Stagecoach

C) Fort Apache

D) Dodge City

Answer · why

B) Stagecoach

Stagecoach was the one; producer Walter Wanger wanted Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich instead, and Ford refused to replace Wayne.

Q 03/05

Which landscape in the American Southwest did John Ford make his signature Western backdrop from 1939 onward?

A) Death Valley

B) Monument Valley

C) The Grand Canyon

D) The Painted Desert

Answer · why

B) Monument Valley

Monument Valley, on the Arizona-Utah border, was Ford's backdrop from Stagecoach (1939) to Cheyenne Autumn (1964), even when the story was set in Texa...

Q 04/05

What is John Wayne's escaped-convict character called in Ford's 1939 breakthrough film?

A) The Sundance Kid

B) The Waco Kid

C) Ethan Edwards

D) The Ringo Kid

Answer · why

D) The Ringo Kid

The Ringo Kid, played by Wayne in Stagecoach, has broken out of prison to avenge his father and brother, murdered by the Plummer gang.

Q 05/05

What was John Wayne's real name?

A) Marion Robert Morrison

B) Robert Marion Morrison

C) Marion Clyde Morrison

D) Michael Mitchell Morrison

Answer · why

A) Marion Robert Morrison

Marion Robert Morrison was born in Winterset, Iowa, in 1907; Glendale firemen nicknamed him 'Little Duke' after his Airedale terrier, Duke.