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5 days ago · The 1956 movie “The Conqueror” is infamous among cinephiles, both for its casting of John Wayne as the Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan and for a suspicious number of deaths that followed its...
2 days ago · The Tragic History Behind The Conqueror. Produced by Howard Hughes and released in 1956, The Conqueror was a big-budget film that starred John Wayne as Genghis Khan and Susan Hayward. Tragically ...
1 day ago · A new documentary, The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout tells the story of the mysterious health issues and deaths surrounding the 1956 film The Conqueror and its crew members, who worked on a film site outside of St. George, Utah near The Nevada Site, a nuclear testing site. 91 out of 220 crew members reportedly got cancer, with 46 people dying ...
2 days ago · In this light, “The Conqueror’s” initial box office disgrace seems trivial beside the human toll it exacted. And in the nuclear shadow of its making, the film stands as a grim reminder of recklessness in an industry that so often prides itself on illusion and spectacle.
1 day ago · A calamitous disaster of a film, The Conqueror, though was not just awful by cinematic standards. A new documentary, The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout lays out the argument that it was literally toxic. John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror, as depicted in The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout.
2 days ago · His next movie is a role in Gladiator II as Macrinus, a wealthy arms dealer that could put the actor in another villainous role. Denzel also has a new Spike Lee movie upcoming with their remake of High and Low. The actor is even working on a Hannibal the Conqueror movie with The Equalizer director Antoine Fuqua.
1 day ago · This campaign established Genghis's lasting image as a ruthless, inhumane conqueror. Contemporary Persian historians placed the death toll from the three sieges alone at over 5.7 million—a number regarded as grossly exaggerated by modern scholars.
