Like most movie stars, John Wayne had some huge hits but also big turkeys over his Hollywood career. The Conqueror ... with The New Times calling the 1956 epic “an Oriental Western” with ...

“The Conqueror” starred John Wayne as Genghis Khan... and that was only part of the trouble. The 1956 film, dreamed up and financed by billionaire Howard Hughes to be a historical ...

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There are even some movies that have ended lives. Rarely do you find a movie that achieves all three. Dick Powell’s 1956 epic ‘The Conqueror’, however, was such a movie – a fatally miscast and ...

T he 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 ...

The new film will screen Saturday at 7 p.m., followed ... Produced by Howard Hughes and released in 1956, "The Conqueror" was part Western and part musical and filmed in parts of Snow Canyon ...

The story goes that the film s director Dick Powell briefly left Wayne alone in his office and Wayne found a script for The Conqueror that Powell had been about to throw away. Wayne insisted ...

Like most movie stars, John Wayne had some huge hits, but also big turkeys over his Hollywood career. The Conqueror ... with The New Times calling the 1956 epic “an Oriental Western” with ...

One such flop was The Conqueror, where Wayne stepped into the role of Genghis Khan after Marlon Brando declined. Despite turning a profit, the film is now ... dubbing the 1956 spectacle "an ...