10 Question Movie Quiz: Movie Villains

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1. Which of the following actors plays the villain in Sergio Leone's classic western "Once Upon a Time in the West"?

Answer: Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda plays a cold-blooded killer named Frank, in the 1969 movie. Don't miss the bit with the harmonica. The movie co-starred Charles Bronson and Jason Robards.

2. Gregory Peck played many heroes such as Captain Horatio Hornblower and Captain Mallory in "The Guns of Navarone". In which of the following movies did he play a murderous Nazi?

Answer: The Boys From Brazil

Peck stars as Josef Mengele, "The Angel of Death", who cloned several new Hitlers and is trying establish environments identical to that of the Fuhrer to increase the chances that one of "The Boys From Brazil" would develop into Hitler. Laurence Olivier co-stars as Ezra Lieberman, the Nazi hunter out to stop him.

3. Early in the career of Ray Milland he played good guy type roles including John in "Beau Geste". In which of the following movies does he try to kill his wife?

Answer: Dial M For Murder

Ray Milland plots the murder of his wife (played by Grace Kelly) in Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 masterpiece "Dial M For Murder". Grace Kelly foils the plot by stabbing the man Milland induced to carry out his plan, but Milland moves to plan B and frames her for murder.

4. Which of the following actors, best known for playing a family man and a doctor, portrays an enemy agent in Alfred Hitchcock's "Secret Agent"?

Answer: Robert Young

Robert Young plays the villain in the 1936 movie "Secret Agent". The movie co-starred Madeleine Carroll and John Gielgud. Young is best known for playing Richard Anderson in "Father Knows Best" and starring as Dr. Marcus Welby in the 1969 series "Marcus Welby".

5. Canadian actor Raymond Massey portrayed many heroes on the screen including Sherlock Holmes and Abraham Lincoln. In which of the following films does he play a villain named Chauvelin?

Answer: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Raymond Massey plays the odious Chauvelin who is trying to capture the "Scarlet Pimpernel". Leslie Howard portrays "The Pimperel", an Englishman named Sir Percy Blakeney. Set during the French Revolution, Sir Percy risks his life by crossing over into France and rescuing aristocrats who are awaiting execution by guillotine. Raymond Massey played many other villains on the big screen including King Cutler in "Reap the Wild Wind" and as Jonathan Brewster in "Arsenic and Old Lace".

6. Franchot Tone was nominated for an Oscar for his role as Midshipman Roger Byam in "Mutiny in the Bounty" and he also starred as hero John Bramble in the 1943 film, "Five Graves to Cairo". In which of the following movies does he play a psychopathic killer?

Answer: Phantom Lady

The 1944 thriller "Phantom Lady" stars Alan Curtis as an unhappily married man who is framed for the murder of his wife. His only alibi is a mysterious woman, who nobody else seems to remember. Franchot Tone co-stars as Jack Marlow, who plays Curtis' demented friend.

The other movies listed also featured Franchot Tone, who was once married to Joan Crawford and said to be the reason of the rift between Crawford and Bette Davis.

7. Who plays the villain in the 1956 western "Jubal"?

Answer: Rod Steiger

Loosely based om William Shakespeare's "Othello", Glenn Ford stars as Jubal Troop, a drifter who takes a job at a ranch owned by Ernest Borgnine. Rod Steiger co-stars as a jealous ranch hand who decides to get rid of Ford by lying to Borgnine about a relationship between Ford and Borgnine's wife. Rod Steiger and Ernest Borgnine were actors who played many different roles, sometimes as a hero, sometimes the villain.

However, they both won Oscars for playing a hero or good guy type, Borgnine for "Marty" and Steiger as the shrewd southern sheriff in "In the Heat of the Night".

8. Humphrey Bogart played numerous villains early in his career most notably as Duke Mantee in "The Petrified Forest". In which of the following movies does Bogart play "Baby" Face Martin a gangster on the run from the law who goes back home to the East Side?

Answer: Dead End

Bogart returns home to see his mother, but she rejects him and denounces him as a murderer. "Dead End" also starred Sylvia Sydney, Joel McCrea, and the Dead End Kids. Bogart also played the villain in the other three films listed, including his role as a killer (named "Mad Dog" Earle) on the run in "High Sierra".

9. Leading man Laurence Olivier starred in many great films such as "Hamlet", "Rebecca" and "Wuthering Heights". In which of the following films does he play an evil dentist who uses his dentistry equipment to torture a man named Babe Levy for information?

Answer: Marathon Man

Dustin Hoffman stars as Babe Levy, a Columbia graduate student, who jogs in his spare time and dreams of running in a marathon. Olivier plays a Nazi, named Szell, who comes to America to retrieve stolen jewels. Dr. Szell uses his dental tools to torture Hoffman to find out what he knows.

However Hoffman escapes and begins pursuing Olivier. The other movies listed also featured Laurence Olivier.

10. Which of the following actors, who is best known as a slob or his television role as a crusading doctor, played a thug named Vince in the 1958 movie "Cry Terror"?

Answer: Jack Klugman

"Cry Terror" stars James Mason as a family man, who is forced by psychopath Rod Steiger into aiding him in an extortion plot. In order to assure his cooperation, Mason's family is kidnapped and held by a thug named Vince (Klugman) and a woman named Eileen Kelley (Angie Dickinson).

Source: Author professorjon

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