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Quiz about John Waynes Movies  Part I
Quiz about John Waynes Movies  Part I

John Wayne's Movies - Part I Trivia Quiz


How much do you know about John Wayne's movies? This quiz covers a wide range of John Wayne movies. Test your knowledge about The Duke's movies and good luck! WARNING: Contains Spoilers!

A multiple-choice quiz by wandev. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
wandev
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
299,092
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
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Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
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1. Ward Bond appears in 22 movies with Wayne, including which of the following? Hint

McQ (1974)
Hatari (1952)
The Searchers (1956)
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)

2. John Wayne dies (or is dead) in which of the following movies? Hint

Tall in the Saddle (1944)
The Train Robbers (1973)
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

3. Oliver Hardy, of Laurel and Hardy fame, is the Duke's "sidekick" in which movie? Hint

Three Godfathers (1948)
Flying Tigers (1942)
Dakota (1945)
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)

4. Marlene Dietrich stars in which of the following movies with John Wayne?
Hint

Rio Grande (1950)
The Spoilers (1942)
The Quiet Man (1952)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)

5. Which of the following movies is a remake of "Rio Bravo"? Hint

Rio Lobo (1970)
Big Jake (1971)
The Undefeated (1969)
El Dorado (1966)

6. Which of the following is/are the only movie(s) in which the Duke plays a cop? Hint

Both
McQ (1974)
Brannigan (1975)
Neither

7. Which of the following is a Civil War era movie? Hint

The Searchers (1956)
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Red River (1948)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)

8. In one of Wayne's best war movies, he portrays Sgt. John Stryker. What is this movie, which ends with the U. S. Marines' attack on Mt. Suribachi during World War II and includes the famous scene of the raising of the American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi? Hint

They Were Expendable (1945)
The Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Back to Bataan (1945)
The Wings of Eagles (1957)

9. In a different role for Wayne, in which movies does he play a House Un-American Activities Committee investigator, during the Cold War and the notorious McCarthy Committee anti-Communist frenzy in the United States? Hint

Big Jim McLain (1952)
The High and the Mighty (1954)
Brannigan (1975)
In Harm's Way (1965)

10. One of my favorites -- which comedy co-stars Lee Marvin and Jack Warden with a little-known female lead, Elizabeth Allen, in a South Pacific setting? Hint

Donovan's Reef (1963)
Big Jake (1971)
The Sea Spoilers (1936)
Hatari! (1962)


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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Ward Bond appears in 22 movies with Wayne, including which of the following?

Answer: The Searchers (1956)

Ward Bond and Wayne met while playing football at USC. They remained life-long friends. Wayne-Bond collaborations include "Rio Bravo", "The Quiet Man", "Tall in the Saddle", "The Searchers", "Fort Apache" and "The Big Trail" (uncredited bit part). "The Big Trail" (1930) was Wayne's first starring role but he did not become a star until he made "Stagecoach" in 1939. "The Searchers" is the story of Ethan Edwards' five year search for his niece, Debbie, captured by the Comanches on a murder raid. Edwards is driven by his hatred for the Comanches and, by association, his niece.

He plans to kill her when he finds her, as he believes she has become a "Comanch"; however, when he finally finds her, he takes her home to her family. His change of heart upon actually finding Debbie makes an interesting plot twist.
2. John Wayne dies (or is dead) in which of the following movies?

Answer: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

John Wayne dies in a total of eight or 10 movies, depending on how you look at it, including "The Sands of Iwo Jima", "Central Airport", "The Shootist", "The Alamo", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "The Fighting Seabees", "The Cowboys", "The Barbarian and the Geisha", "The Wake of the Red Witch" and "The Sea Chase".

In "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", co-starring Jimmy Stewart and Lee Marvin, John Wayne plays Tom Doniphan. In their younger years, Doniphan and Rance Stoddard (Stewart) vie for the love of Hallie (Vera Miles) and Stewart wins.

Many years later, when Stewart is a United States Senator, he and his wife return to the town of Shinbone for Doniphan's funeral and the Senator tells reporters the real story about who shot Liberty Valance.
3. Oliver Hardy, of Laurel and Hardy fame, is the Duke's "sidekick" in which movie?

Answer: The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)

Wayne and Hardy are great together in this very funny black and white film, which co-stars Vera Ralston. It is a pre-Civil War saga of the Second Kentucky Regiment, marching 800 miles from Louisiana back home to Kentucky and their adventures along the way. Wayne, of course, gets the girl.
4. Marlene Dietrich stars in which of the following movies with John Wayne?

Answer: The Spoilers (1942)

Dietrich made four films with Wayne. The best is "The Spoilers", in which she plays Cherry Malotte, the saloon owner/entertainer who starts out to swindle Wayne. However, she falls in love with him along the way and they end up living happily ever after, after ruining the plans of the bad guy, played by Randolph Scott, to steal Wayne's gold mine.
5. Which of the following movies is a remake of "Rio Bravo"?

Answer: El Dorado (1966)

"Rio Bravo" (1959) co-stars Dean Martin as the drunk deputy (called in the movie "borachon" or "drunk" by the Mexicans), Ward Bond, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan as the side-kick deputy. This is Angie Dickinson's first major movie role as the gambler who falls in love with Wayne. Robert Mitchum plays the Martin role in "El Dorado" with James Caan in the Nelson role as Alan Bedillion Treherne a/k/a "Mississippi". Arthur Hunnicutt plays the bugle-blowing side-kick deputy, Bull. Charlene Holt plays the Duke's love interest in the remake.

This is one of the few movies in which the remake is as good as the original.
6. Which of the following is/are the only movie(s) in which the Duke plays a cop?

Answer: Both

These are both terrible movies, by the Duke's own standards. He was getting long in the tooth, was in poor health (later diagnosed as cancer), and died four years after making "Brannigan". In "Brannigan", LA police officer Jim Brannigan (Wayne) is sent to London to bring home an American mobster. Along the way, he must deal with Scotland Yard, a stuffy English policeman and a crooked lawyer.

In "McQ", Lon McQ (Wayne) seeks the murderer of his best friend and partner and must deal as well with corrupt police officials dealing in drugs.
7. Which of the following is a Civil War era movie?

Answer: The Horse Soldiers (1959)

"The Horse Soldiers" is one of Wayne's best movies. He plays a Union officer who is forced to take along a Southern Belle, Miss Hannah Hunter of Greenbriar, played by Constsance Towers, on a march through the South and of course he falls in love with her -- a Yankee and a Southern Belle! William Holden is terrific as the Regimental Doctor; he and Wayne dislike each other intensely (to find out why, see the movie).

The doctor hates war and Wayne hates the doctor.
8. In one of Wayne's best war movies, he portrays Sgt. John Stryker. What is this movie, which ends with the U. S. Marines' attack on Mt. Suribachi during World War II and includes the famous scene of the raising of the American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi?

Answer: The Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

One of Wayne's best! Sgt. John Stryker is a very troubled man and his personal problems are brought to light through his difficult relationship with Pfc. Peter Conway, played by John Agar. The movie focuses on Stryker's leadership of his men, leading up to the attack on Mt. Suribachi. Excellent character development as well as a good telling of the story of the Marines at Iwo Jima.

This is one of the few movies in which Wayne has no love interest. Wayne was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal but lost to Broderick Crawford for "All the King's Men".
9. In a different role for Wayne, in which movies does he play a House Un-American Activities Committee investigator, during the Cold War and the notorious McCarthy Committee anti-Communist frenzy in the United States?

Answer: Big Jim McLain (1952)

This movie was panned by the critics and was not a box office hit either. Wayne's character, Jim McLain, attempts to break up a communist ring in Hawaii. The movie has a tear-jerker ending with Marines boarding a ship for roll call with the Marine Corps Hymn, "The Halls of Montezuma", playing in the background.
10. One of my favorites -- which comedy co-stars Lee Marvin and Jack Warden with a little-known female lead, Elizabeth Allen, in a South Pacific setting?

Answer: Donovan's Reef (1963)

Great movie! Lee Marvin shines as the "plucky comic relief" (remember "Galaxy Quest"?). Wayne's only movie with Elizabeth Allen, who co-stars as the stiff Boston matron, Amelia Dedham, wooed and won by Wayne. Allen's filmography is almost exclusively in television, including appearances in soap operas.

She is quite good in this role, however, and plays the stuffy old maid from Boston with elan and humor. Cesar Romero is a stitch as the pompous Marquis Andre de Lage, the British attache; Dorothy Lamour is the saloon singer in love with Lee Marvin's character, Thomas Aloysius "Boats" Gilhooley.

This is one of only a few comedic efforts by Wayne; others include "The Quiet Man" and "McLintock", both co-starring Maureen O'Hara. There are multiple sub-plots in the movie, including Gilhooley's relationship with Miss Lafleur (Lamour), the Marquis' amorous flirtations, Dr. Dedham's (Jack Warden) reunion with his grown daughter Amelia (Allen), as well as the main plot line, Donovan's reluctant and combative courtship with Amelia.

As with all romantic comedies, all's well that ends well.
Source: Author wandev

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