High Noon
The film "Candyman" is based on a short story called "The Forbidden" by Clive Barker.
The area of Western short grasslands is 435,200 square kilometers.
The abbreviation for Western Australia is WA.
The screenplay for the John Wayne movie "Hondo" was based on the Louis L'Amour short story, "The Gift of Cochise".
The District of Columbia, commonly called "D.C." for short, is the district in which the U.S. government is based.
The Lottery
The first movie based on a book was called Tilby and Little Billee, based on Du Maurier's novel Trilby. It was a movie short, filmed in 1896.
The translation to Othello is the Moor of Venice. It is based on an Italian short story called Un Capitano Moro.
The movie based on Henry James's short story "The Pupil" is called "The American." It was released in 1998 and stars Matthew Modine.
The Thing From Another World was based on the short story "Who Goes There?"
The Western Academy of Beijing, or WAB for short, was founded in 1994.
WESTERN (in the west, or a cowboy movie) is pronounced with a short "e" : "WEHST-urn".