In countless movies, many of them classics like "Stagecoach," John Wayne righted wrongs and lived to tell the tale. He may have done something similar by starring in a bizarre 1956 turkey, which might ...
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 filming ...
In 1950s Hollywood, the most popular pictures were lavish Technicolor epics set in ancient Greece or gladiatorial Rome. Howard Hughes’ “The Conqueror” with John Wayne as the mighty Mongol Genghis Khan ...
Like most movie stars, John Wayne had some huge hits but also big turkeys over his Hollywood career. The Conqueror, in which Duke played Genghis Khan after Marlon Brando backed out, may have made a ...
He wasn’t jealous of Spartacus because it was significantly better, made six times more money at the box office, and won four ...