Thursday 2 May 2013

Thud and blunder


The Conqueror (1956)

Directed by Dick Powell this film stars John Wayne, Susan Hayward and Pedro Armendariz. A Mongol warrior fights various tribes to gain power and a woman.

This film is littered with poor decisions from casting John Wayne in the lead role to filming on a former nuclear weapons test site which has allegedly lead to many cast and crew dying of cancer. While the plot is a fictional version of the rise of Genghis Khan there it is not that much different than many similar historical films of the period. It is hard to find much to praise about this film and it was considered one of the worst films of the decade by critics of the time.

1/5

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