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 ...