2. The picture below is that of the climax of an iconic western. The climax scene itself is hailed as a classic. Name the movie.
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
3. The Indians called him as Shu-mani-tu-tonka O' Wa-chi. He also married an Indian girl Stands with a Fist, and he is in charge of Fort Sedgwick. By what name do we know this Western movie character better?
DANCES WITH WOLVES
4. The 1960 Western starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett, and Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie, was based on the real life 1836 battle during the Texas Independence struggle. The movie however did not do too well financially, and the 2004 version was also a disaster at the box office. Which one?
THE ALAMO
5. Complete the trilogy She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Fort Apache and ……….
RIO GRANDE(CAVALRY TRILOGY)
6. The 1957 movie Gun Fight at OK Corral is one of the best on the famous incident. Directed by John Sturges, the screenplay for this movie was written by a famous bestselling novelist. Name him.
LEON URIS
7.
This still is from one of Clint Eastwood’s more underrated westerns. This 1968 movie, stars him as a rancher Jed Cooper who survives a lynching by nine men and then comes back as a US Marshal to take revenge. Name this movie.
HANG EM HIGH
8.
Opening shot of a famous 1959 Western starring John Wayne. Howard Hawks directed this movie, as a right wing response to High Noon, which Wayne labeled “the most un American thing I have seen in my life”. Wayne stars as Sheriff John .T.Chance, who has to single handedly fight off a group of ranchers after he arrests the brother of a powerful rancher. Also starring Dean Martin, this movie was the inspiration for Assault on Precinct 13.
RIO BRAVO
9. Apart from the Dollars trilogy Clint Eastwood again played a Stranger with no name in this 1973 revisionist Western, which was directed by Eastoowd himself. The movie is famous for it’s cryptic ending where the Sheriff says “I don’t know your name”, and to which he replies “Yes you do” and rides away into the horizon. Name this movie.
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER
10. The movie had 3 directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford and George Marshall directing the 5 segments Rivers, Plains, Outlaws, Civil War and Railroad. Populated with a star cast of Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, John Wayne, Eli Wallach, James Stewart, this 1962 movie traces 4 generations of a family as they move from New York to the Pacific. Name this epic Western.
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
THE SCORES
Suresh-9
Anush-4
Kamal-9
Sayantan-10
Gaurav-9
Mayukh-4
Nishanth-3
Aditya-4
Ramsu-8
Pradeep-5
Biju-7
