Don't know why I never discovered this one before...
...John Wayne playing Genghis Khan...perfect.
EDIT:
Downloaded it on Bittorrent.
I just love the description... 'I am Temujin... Barbarian... I fight... I love... I conquer... like a Barbarian!' Of course Temujin wasn't Barbarian he was Mongol.
There is also an interesting piece in IMDB 'trivia' about this movie.
"The film is sometimes called "An RKO Radioactive Picture." It was filmed near a nuclear test site, and the set was contaminated by nuclear fallout. Photographs exist of John Wayne holding a Geiger counter. After location shooting, contaminated soil was transported back to Hollywood in order to match interior shooting done there. Over the next 20 years, many actors and crew members developed cancer. People Magazine researched the cast and crew's health for an article. By the time it was published, in November 1980, 91 of the 220 cast and crew members had developed cancer. Forty-six had died, including John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz (who shot himself soon after learning he had terminal cancer), Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt and director Dick Powell. The count did not include several hundred local Native Americans who played extras, or relatives of the cast and crew who visited the set, including John Wayne's son Michael Wayne. The article quoted the reaction of a scientist from the Pentagon's Defense Nuclear Agency to the news, "Please, God, don't let us have killed John Wayne". As of June 2011, the People article is available in their archive online."
Going to show this movie to my Mongolian neighbours, how the big Texan portrays the 'local hero' around here.
Edited by MikeDT - 8/6/11 at 3:44am
...John Wayne playing Genghis Khan...perfect.
EDIT:
Downloaded it on Bittorrent.
I just love the description... 'I am Temujin... Barbarian... I fight... I love... I conquer... like a Barbarian!' Of course Temujin wasn't Barbarian he was Mongol.
There is also an interesting piece in IMDB 'trivia' about this movie.
"The film is sometimes called "An RKO Radioactive Picture." It was filmed near a nuclear test site, and the set was contaminated by nuclear fallout. Photographs exist of John Wayne holding a Geiger counter. After location shooting, contaminated soil was transported back to Hollywood in order to match interior shooting done there. Over the next 20 years, many actors and crew members developed cancer. People Magazine researched the cast and crew's health for an article. By the time it was published, in November 1980, 91 of the 220 cast and crew members had developed cancer. Forty-six had died, including John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz (who shot himself soon after learning he had terminal cancer), Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt and director Dick Powell. The count did not include several hundred local Native Americans who played extras, or relatives of the cast and crew who visited the set, including John Wayne's son Michael Wayne. The article quoted the reaction of a scientist from the Pentagon's Defense Nuclear Agency to the news, "Please, God, don't let us have killed John Wayne". As of June 2011, the People article is available in their archive online."
Going to show this movie to my Mongolian neighbours, how the big Texan portrays the 'local hero' around here.
Edited by MikeDT - 8/6/11 at 3:44am
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