The Wayne-Hawks Quintet Trivia Quiz

Answer: cattle baron

Wayne was Tom Dunson, so obsessed with getting his herd to the Midwest markets he became a tyrant running roughshod over his men. On seeing his performance Ford exclaimed "I never knew [he] could act!"

Answer: Montgomery Clift

Dunson found Garth as a boy after the Indian massacre that cost him his fiance. Clift went on to "A Place In The Sun" and "From Here To Eternity".

Answer: Joanne Dru

Clift meets and falls for Dru when she and her companions are attacked by Indians. Later, Wayne, aiming to kill Clift for his mutiny, is more interested in her for her giving him a birth son. At the end, she breaks up their fistfight. She also starred with Wayne in "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon".

Answer: M

M for Matt, beside the Dunson D. After their reconciliation, Wayne decides Clift has "earned it".

Answer: The Last Picture Show

Peter Bogdonovich had "River" as the final movie shown at the failed theatre in a Texas town.

Answer: sheriff

Here, Wayne's sheriff, John T. Chance, must guard murderer Claude Akins against attempts by the latter's rich brother to spring him.

Answer: Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson

Nelson was Colorado, who joined the group after his boss Ward Bond was gunned down by the villains. Martin was Dude, who became a drunk after a girl dumped him. Martin's performance will be a revelation to those who know him from his "Matt Helm" travesties. Martin later teamed with Sinatra in "Four For Texas" and Fabian with Wayne in "North To Alaska".

Answer: Angie Dickinson

Dickinson played "Feathers", a flamboyant saloon girl passing through town but staying and falling in love with Wayne. Ann-Margaret later teamed with Wayne in "The Train Robbers".

Answer: Walter Brennan

Brennan had a gallery of memorable roles to his credit; Groot in "River" and Stumpy in "Bravo" are just two of them.

Answer: John Carpenter

Carpenter edited his early film "Assault On Precinct 13" as "John T. Chance". He is a longtime Hawks buff and later remade the Hawks-produced "The Thing".

Answer: Africa

The odd one out in the quintet, "Hatari!" stars Wayne as Sean Mercer, head of a group of big game trappers in Africa, catching animals for zoos.

Answer: Danger

The Swahili title is proven in the film's beginning, when "The Indian" (played by "King Kong's" Bruce Cabot, who later teamed with Wayne in "The Green Berets") gets wounded by a pursued rhino.

Answer: Elsa Martinelli

Martinelli is best known for her role as Dallas, a photographer who sets her romantic sights on Wayne.

Answer: Red Buttons

Buttons, who won an Oscar for "Sayonara" was Pockets, the film's comic relief. In "Day" he was one of Wayne's paratroopers who gets hung up on a church steeple and goes temporarily deaf from the bells.

Answer: Henry Mancini

Mancini had a smash hit with his "Baby Elephant Walk" from the film. At the climax, Mancini reprises it over the slapstick chase where the baby elephants are used by Wayne to track down the fleeing Martinelli.

Answer: Robert Mitchum

Mitchum's J.P. Harra was a much broader replay of Martin's Dude from "Bravo".

Answer: James Caan

Caan played Mississippi, who wore an unusual hat and carried an old fowling piece because he couldn't shoot a pistol. He was also fond of quoting from the Edgar Allan Poe poem "El Dorado", which gave the film its title. Duvall teamed with Wayne two years later in "True Grit".

Answer: Ed Asner

Before being Lou Grant, who started on the "Mary Tyler Moore" show as a station boss and became a newspaper editor later on the "MTM" spinoff titled after him) Asner was villain Bart Jason, bent on grabbing cattle land from the MacDonald family.

Answer: Johnny Crawford

Crawford, Chuck Connors' son in "The Rifleman", played Luke MacDonald, posting guard over the family herd. He shot at Wayne, thinking him a bad guy and got shot in return. He later starred in Carpenter's short "The Resurrection of Bronco Billy".

Answer: a bullet in his back

Put there by vengeful sister Joey MacDonald (Michelle Carey) after Wayne brings brother Luke's body back to the family ranch. She later joins his cause, though, and guns down Jason at the climax.

Answer: Civil War

It starts with a Confederate robbery of gold from a Yankee train, abetted by a traitor Wayne hunts down afterwards.

Answer: George Plimpton

Best known for "Paper Lion", Plimpton is the villain who comes up behind Wayne and says "I got a warrant right here, sheriff!"

Answer: Victor French

French is also the head of the outlaw ring that has taken over the town of Rio Lobo.

Answer: Sherry Lansing

Lansing played Shasta, one of Wayne's group.

Answer: it is Hawks' last film

Hawks died seven years after "Lobo". But what a lot of great films he left us!