Stagecoach (1939 film)

Choose an answer from the three choices and True or False offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. The movie is based on a short story, “The Stage to Lordsburg”. Who wrote the story?

• John Ford

• Louie L’Amour

• Ernest Haycox

2. Although director John Ford had made many silent films in the Western genre prior to Stagecoach, this was his first using sound.

• True or False?

3. It was also the seventh film which Ford made on location in Monument Valley, in the American southwest on the Arizona - Utah border, many of which starred John Wayne.

• True or False?

4. Alcoholic Doc Boone was driven out of town with the local prostitute Dallas, by the “morality league.” Who played the character and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor?

• Bing Crosby

• Johnny Cash

• Thomas Mitchell

5. John Wayne play what character?

• Hatfield

• McCoy

• Ringo Kid

6. Who played the stagecoach driver, Buck?

• Andy Devine

• Rex Reason

• Guy Madison

7. What happens at Apache Wells?

• Ringo kills Marshall Curly Wilcox

• pompous banker Henry Gatewood steals the towns money

• Lucy Mallory gives birth

8. Apaches attack the stagecoach. Who is the only passenger killed?

• Doc Boone

• Dallas

• Hatfield

9. What passenger is arrest by the Lordsburg sheriff for bank robbery?

• Banker Gatewood

• Luke Plummer

• whisky salesman Samuel Peacock

10. The climatic scene is Ringo going after Luke Plummer. What B-Western star played Luke?

• Tim Holt

• Roy Rogers

• Tom Tyler

Check Your Answers

• 1. Earnest Haycox

• 2. True

• 3. False. It was the first Ford film made in Monument Valley.

• 4. Thomas Mitchell

• 5. Ringo Kid

• 6. Andy Devine

• 7. Lucy Mallory gives birth

• 8. Hatfield

• 9. Banker Gatewood

• 10. Tom Tyler