The Conqueror Hollywood Fallout Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Hollywood's infamous flop, "The Conqueror," stars John Wayne as Genghis Khan, embodying a slew of racist and sexist problems. Its enduring notoriety stems from the tragic fact that nearly half its cast and crew developed cancer, revealing a tale of government deception and negligent production choices, highlighting the devastating impact of nuclear fallout.
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00:01 - "The Conqueror" has been called
00:03 one of the worst films of the 1950s, if not of all time.
00:07 - You could describe "The Conqueror" in one word.
00:09 - Unfortunate.
00:11 - Ridiculous.
00:13 - I thought it was not good.
00:16 - Let there be music and a feast,
00:20 befitting Temujin, chief of the Mongols.
00:23 - You know, my dad playing Genghis Khan, are you serious?
00:26 - I remember watching it and just thinking,
00:28 this is the cheesiest movie I've ever seen.
00:31 - I feel this tired woman is for me.
00:33 My blood says, "Take her."
00:35 - Almost a year before they filmed "The Conqueror,"
00:41 they had set off Dirty Harry,
00:42 one of the largest nuclear bombs
00:43 that had ever been detonated on land.
00:46 - There was so much propaganda that we were safe
00:49 and they wouldn't do anything to harm us.
00:51 - Living in St. George in the '50s and '60s was magical.
00:55 - The residue from this morning's atomic detonation
00:58 is drifting in the direction of St. George.
01:01 - Lucky you didn't go on location
01:04 because these people are dying that did.
01:07 That was the word around town.
01:08 - Of the 220 people who were constantly
01:13 on location shooting in Utah,
01:16 90 or 91 came down with cancer.
01:21 - He had lost so much weight,
01:22 he actually wore a complete other suit of clothes
01:24 underneath it.
01:25 - Her brain cancer was horrific.
01:27 It was absolutely horrific.
01:29 - They actually brought tons of that radioactive soil
01:34 back to RKO, spread it on the floor of the studios,
01:37 and they were exposed to it.
01:39 - Part of the facts of life are fallout.
01:45 - They knew it wasn't safe.
01:47 - They slammed the door in our face.
01:49 There was a cover up.
01:50 - They just tried to shut us up
01:52 and it was like being punched in the gut.
01:56 - I'm not going to be silent anymore.
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