Even the actress was obsessed with John Wayne. She even drunkly stand shouting at night calling out John’s wife to fight her who gets his love. True story
I've heard the theory that this movie really did kill John Wayne. While the Duke contributed his cancer to his constant smoking (a strong possibility), many believe he, like the others, developed it from the radioactivity of the set.
"The Conqueror" was filmed in 1956. Eight years later, John Wayne got lung cancer. He was declared cancer-free five years (and minus an entire left lung and a couple ribs) later. Another seven years later he filmed "The Shootist", where his character was dying from cancer. Three years after that John Wayne died from stomach cancer.
14:31 I do respect that John Wayne wanted to do something different and go outside the box when choosing this role, but there is such a thing as going SO far outside the box that you are approaching outer space.
@Monroville Damn that it is funny! Thanks for the spit-take you caused while reading your comment! Hell, I think he went well beyond our solar system and was racing the ever-expanding universe with taking this part! Cheers!
I DO love it when ppl reach a certain level of super-fame - That there's no one around them left to tell 'em: "Heyyyy.......Y'know, this might be a REALLY bad idea, fella" 😳 - Yeah it's kinda messed up, but I can't help it, it's FUNNY 🤣 ....Go right ahead! You BE that famous-as-Alexander-the-Great Mongolian Historical figure, with the sellotaped eyes and the 'Asian' costume hat.... ......You do YOU, Jay Dubya! 😹_👍
This really is like John Wayne *doing a John Wayne impression* in this movie! (like in about half of his movies) 😅 - He's in that small band of actors who have fantastic presence, are culturally significant, and are well loved by all us movie fans, buuuuut, not actually that great an actor, (when, say, compared to some of their amazing 'character actor' contemporaries)....William Shatner also comes to mind in this regard...
Land contaminated by nuclear fallout? Caucasian people dressing up as Mongols and Genghis Khan? This sounds exactly like something from the Fallout video games.
I would like to see a biopic about Pedro Armendariz. He's probably one of the fist big Mexican-American actors, and had a good friendship with John Wayne and worked on films with him prior to this one. He actually committed suicide after his cancer diagnosis, stating he didn't want it to get the best of him.
@Maria Cline I can't believe you would even have that kind of attitude! These people unfortunately died from devastating and debilitating illnesses! Where is your sympathy, empathy, or your heart? Good lord, you have a sick and morbid sense of humor and ... I, too, have a dark sense of humor as well... I totally would watch that!
Trivia: Borte (whose name actually means grey, referring to her eyes) was actually part of the Olkhunut tribe, cousins of Temujin's mom, and daughter of Dei-Sechen They had their marriage arranged as kids, and Temujin's father was murdered by the Tartars on his way home from the betrothal. Despite the arrangement, they actually loved each other; go figure. There was no love triangle with Jamukha-what broke them apart was sharing of political power and Jamukha's insistence on keeping social segregation vs Temujin's basing of rank on loyalty and service. Genghis' enslavement was by the Tayichiuds, and his escape aided by his guard, Sorqan-Shira. Borte WAS kidnapped and possibly raped (this was suspected but never ascertained and vehemently denied by all) by the Merkits. Temujin promptly rescued her with the help of his blood brother Jamukha. And of course, while Genghis Khan was a murderer and probably rapist, Mongol society was pretty egalitarian; he himself made his mother and Borte his main advisors
I read a dramatization (is that the right word?) of his early life, and when he rescues Borte and demands to know where her captor is, she's all "Already killed him" and he's all "Damn that's hot" It was a fun read.
I'm not sure you can say "while x was a murderer and a rapist, but...". Something about that phrasing doesn't work. Like "Toby committed genocide and enjoyed putting out the eyes of puppies with hot irons, but he was in favor of a progressive tax policy!"
I DO love it when ppl reach a certain level of super-fame - That there's no one around them left to tell 'em: "Heyyyy.......Y'know, this might be a REALLY bad idea, fella" 😳 - Yeah maybe it's messed up, but I can't help that, it's FUNNY 🤣 ....Go right ahead! You BE that famous-as-Alexander-the-Great Mongolian Historical figure, with the sellotaped eyes and the 'Asian' costume hat.... ......You do YOU, Jay Dubya! 😹_👍
@@afrog2666 As a fellow (ahem) sometimes anal-retentive grammar police, I couldn't've said it better myself! Mr. Jones has been one of my favs for at least the last five or six years, along with the Angry Video Game Nerd, Nostalgia Critic, Kitboga and especially RedLetterMedia, I'm all set with content.
I'd kind of love a Genghis Khan movie or TV show I mean he's the greatest conquer in human history while also being one of the the most polarizing figures theirs still countries in the middle east and Asia who haven't regained its old population after he destroyed them but he was also a great social reformer removing classism, cultural conflict and was the modern designer of the postal system in his empire it would be a great character to see on screen
There are movies about him made in Asia that are actually more faithful, though the two I've seen are still pretty bad. Of course, I haven't seen many others, so maybe there are better ones. www.imdb.com/title/tt0770722/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_22 - This one is just meh. The second half is terrible, but the first one is actually pretty cool. Takashi Sorimachi (lead actor) is really pretty. www.imdb.com/title/tt0416044/ - This one has the same kind of laughably pretentious dialogue that the John Wayne version has. It's not as bad, but only because the badness of John Wayne version is hard to match. From a certain point of view it can be so-bad-it's-good material, tho.
This was the second worst thing to happen to St. George, Utah, the first being the nuclear fallout and the third being High School Musical 2. But, seriously I have family members who are downwinders and had either died or survived from cancer in their lives.
I can sympathise - my wife's family lives in a region that has a military testing range in it and a nuke was detonated about 1,000 feet up and 45,000 soldiers did a training exercise in the fallout zone. This was the USSR, so not 1 fuck was given about the civilians or the environment.
This movie! Someone in my family--my grandma maybe?--saw it in the test screening, because she was friends with a film critic, or something. I don't recall the whole story exactly. But whoever saw it said that the whole audience burst out laughing when "Genghis Khan" said "Which way did they go?" (a line John Wayne said in all of his cowboy movies, apparently).
Maybe it sounds better in a western, or maybe John Wayne tries harder in those; but his line reading in this sounded like he just woke up and somebody slapped the script to his face and he had to immediately read it.
I lost my shit when John Wayne slapped her!!!!!! It's so out of nowhere! he's like "your beautiful, kiss. "How dare you make me have a none barbarian response, this will show you" Great scene, best comedy I have ever seen reviewed.
Sean Connery is the same way with NEVER changing his voice for an acting roll.. I was laughing so hard when I heard Sean Connery asking what Hagus (sp?) in Highlander'..'
Liglerian Ha! Yes, the Scotsman Connery playing an Egyptian Spaniard with a Scot accent and costarring a Frenchman as a Scotsman with a Frog accent was pretty funny. BTW, it's _haggis_ , in case you still care :)
As goofy as it is, I think I prefer John Wayne not trying to do a Mongolian accent at all and just keeping his voice normal. Sure, it's not authentic, but neither are white Engrish-speakers in Mongolia at that point in history. Sucks to suck, but at least he tried, right?
john Doe I didn't mention the plot at all, and I didn't mean to reference it, either. I only meant that John Wayne's performance, while definitely not great, could be worse.
The casting reminds me of a movie I've heard about. It tells the story of Finland's Marshal Mannerheim but as it is told trough the imagination of some African children, Mannerheim is black in the movie. :'D I hear the movie is not that good but that idea sure is a good spoof of many Hollywood movies both old and new where they always imagine important people to be white.
Except that it was never meant to be a spoof. It was supposed to be a modern take on Mannerheim, which apparently means he's a black man in Kenya. A terrible idea and a terrible film
It was the 50s, where people believed that a woman struggling against a kiss is only playing hard to get and if a good looking or popular guy kisses or f**** her, she has to be into it eventually. She only doesn't know it yet. [Holds up sarcasm sign] Good old times
I've been a John Wayne fan all my life and it's hard to beleive that the same year (1956) The Duke gave one of his greatest roles as Ethan Edwards in "The Searchers he decided to play Genghis Khan in"The Conqueror"!!😮😅
If The Conqeror was made in Hong Kong, and they also have Mongolian casts in it, then that movie would be 65 to 80 percent better than John Wayne's version.
It seems like you've got your wish as there was a movie about the early life of Temüjin (Genghis Khan) in 2008 called MONGOL with Tadanobu Asano (Hogun from the Marvel THOR movies) as the main lead.
Another interesting fact is two of John Wayne sons Michael and Patrick were in the film playing guards must’ve been fun seeing their dad speak broken English 😩
Historically, Genghis Khan founded the Mongol Empire by uniting nomadic tribes in Central Asia. Khan was brutal but more in the scope of a sociopath than a psychopath. He did use terror and did kill many innocents. He was fascinated with knowledge that the Mongols could use but famously scorned ' useless' knowledge. The objective was booty as in plunder; Much of said booty was dispensed to buy loyalty or reward it. One must remember that before an Empire, Mongols were clans. Inter-Clan warfare was frequent. While much of the Mongol brutality was simply to prove superiority, much was quite calculated. The same idea was often used by other empires. Khan was a complex historical character who defied later attempts to simplify him.
Okay I'm pretty sure "he was an omnicidal SOCIOPATH, not a psychopath who wasn't totally brainless" isn't really defying any "later attempts". I don't know why so many people in the comments are like "oh sure he was a monster but did you know he liked to crochet?!?! Bet you didn't checkmate athiests".
😢😢 This movie makes me cry for all the wrong reasons. Its like how is it that Howard Hughs was 1 of the richest men in America making schlock like this, buying all copies of this schlock, & building the Spruce Goose???
This really is like John Wayne *doing a John Wayne impression* in this movie! (like in about half of his movies) 😅 - He's in that small band of actors who have fantastic presence, are culturally significant, and are well loved by all us movie fans, buuuuut, not actually that great an actor, (when, say, compared to some of their amazing 'character actor' contemporaries)..........William Shatner also comes to mind in this regard....
This area was so dangerous, you know, from being downwind from nuclear fallout and whatnot, that I half-expected the film print to look like the radioactively degraded film (static/spots) of Chernobyl footage! I'm surprised in addition to bringing back some contaminated soil with them, that they didn't sprinkle in some crushed irradiated graphite as well, for an added contrast to the light-colored sand, you see! What the fuck, Mr. Snob, what the fuck indeed!
6:50 did they really accompany basically what was sexual assault with dramatic romantic music like it's supposed to be some sort of amazing moment?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I just wanted to simply point out to everyone replying on Brad's videos that he has some of the most enjoyable, observant and hilarious comment sections of any others I ever have read. Kudos to my fellow Stoned Gremlin Production fans!
Whoo boy. overlaying a very rapey (ahem, "rapine'y") scene with romantic musicals is really fuckin telling about how we view rape societally. In other words: YiiiiIIIIiIIIiIIIIIIIkes!!!!!
"Fun" fact: in one of his early works Dick Powell, the director of this film also directed Split Second a film about a group of people who is held hostage by to convicts in a ghost town that was selected for an atom bomb test
0:00-0:11 "Welcome to a new episode of the Cinema Snob, where we look at a Hollywood movie that's so WTF, it's radioactive" (canned Booing) I DON'T GET THE JOKE!!
Jeezums, those moments when John Wayne would force himself on her with a lusty look on his face while romantic music kept playing are downright skin-crawling uncomfortable. You could insert the scene into a psycho-thriller and it would fit perfectly.
And now I know why Howard Hughes was so obsessed with recapturing all the film canisters of the heap of shit. For in essence, it's the greatest, most numerous snuff film of all time. Sure they weren't offed on film, but many many of the on and behind the scenes talent met an early grave. But I'm sure Mr. Hughes, the richest man in the world at the time as well as a military aerospace industrialist was quite aware of the absolutely lethal radiation levels here out in the super-nuked Nevada desert.
Whitewashing is a weird stuff. For men, they wanted to remain true to the character racial features (or at least, a stereotypical depiction of it). But for women, especially the love interest, they just didnt care. They would just go find the cutest white woman in the world and then cast her regardless of whether she can be passed off as the race she is playing. Even in 1965 Genghis Khan they cast a blonde french woman as Borte without caring how her hair and accent make her so out of place. Btw the 1965 movie was so much better, way more dedicated in portraying Genghis Khan life as accurate as possible. Probably would recommend if it was not for the whitewashing.
That looks pretty much like every 1950s period piece, except of course the really dark/shocking backstory and the rather bad performance by John Wayne. I'm pretty sure the movie would have been much better with Richard Burto instead of John Wayne.
Plus the bad script, dialogues and everything. It's like if you took Ten Commandements, King And I, Ben Hur or Cleopatra and cut everything that made these movies good despite their flaws.
There's a feature length documentary about downwinders and the story behind the rumor that John Wayne and others on the film were killed due to nuclear radiation called "DOWNWINDERS - Did the Government kill John Wayne?" You can see the trailer for it here: czcams.com/video/srbMbqlLsxo/video.html
This tragedy won't have happened if these guys should have pick a better location anywhere in Asia for their set. Which place in Asia would be perfect for shooting The Conqueror?
It would have been interesting if they made a movie that draws some kind of analogy between Genghis Khan and the typical John Wayne-esque hero, instead of just using him for an unfitting soap opera plot while pretending to care about historical accuracy.
That would have made for a better film than this turkey. A story of two seemingly disconnected worlds from two different periods being more alike than they realised.
Your eyes say no, but the orchestra playing the soundtrack says yes.
Unfortunately the eyes were rendered unreadable by a half pound of race altering sellotape.....So he misread all the normal cues...... ''
Even the actress was obsessed with John Wayne. She even drunkly stand shouting at night calling out John’s wife to fight her who gets his love. True story
Ahhh the 50s 😊
The way John Wayne pronounces "Jamuga" sounds like the name of a Starbucks drink
"Jamuga" ?
....Can I have mine with skimmed milk, J.W? 😹_👍
I've heard the theory that this movie really did kill John Wayne. While the Duke contributed his cancer to his constant smoking (a strong possibility), many believe he, like the others, developed it from the radioactivity of the set.
"The Conqueror" was filmed in 1956. Eight years later, John Wayne got lung cancer. He was declared cancer-free five years (and minus an entire left lung and a couple ribs) later. Another seven years later he filmed "The Shootist", where his character was dying from cancer. Three years after that John Wayne died from stomach cancer.
It's not so much either / or
and more like
six of one
AND a half-dozen of the other.
14:31 I do respect that John Wayne wanted to do something different and go outside the box when choosing this role, but there is such a thing as going SO far outside the box that you are approaching outer space.
@Monroville Damn that it is funny! Thanks for the spit-take you caused while reading your comment! Hell, I think he went well beyond our solar system and was racing the ever-expanding universe with taking this part! Cheers!
I DO love it when ppl reach a certain level of super-fame - That there's no one around them left to tell 'em: "Heyyyy.......Y'know, this might be a REALLY bad idea, fella" 😳
- Yeah it's kinda messed up, but I can't help it, it's FUNNY 🤣
....Go right ahead! You BE that famous-as-Alexander-the-Great Mongolian Historical figure, with the sellotaped eyes and the 'Asian' costume hat....
......You do YOU, Jay Dubya! 😹_👍
I absolutely lost it when he got to the part about Wayne sounding like C.W. McCall doing Shakespeare. Oh god, that's priceless.
This really is like John Wayne *doing a John Wayne impression* in this movie! (like in about half of his movies) 😅
- He's in that small band of actors who have fantastic presence, are culturally significant, and are well loved by all us movie fans,
buuuuut, not actually that great an actor, (when, say, compared to some of their amazing 'character actor' contemporaries)....William Shatner also comes to mind in this regard...
Land contaminated by nuclear fallout? Caucasian people dressing up as Mongols and Genghis Khan? This sounds exactly like something from the Fallout video games.
+Dawn Darrell Samaitha Well fuck I should mod that in
***** Yep.
Although FoNV also did have a faction where they dressed up as Mongols too, The Great Khans.
+Dawn Darrell Samaitha it goes deeper, this was filmed near the mojave desert, where fonv takes place
Wonkydong .Expander Damn. The coincidences just keeps coming.
+Dawn Darrell Samaitha Never thought of it that way but...yeah it does actually sound like Fallout.
I want to see a film made about the people making the Conqueor. That would be hilarious. Kinda dark but hilarious.
Basically a nuclear version of "The Disaster Artist." I love it.
I would like to see a biopic about Pedro Armendariz. He's probably one of the fist big Mexican-American actors, and had a good friendship with John Wayne and worked on films with him prior to this one. He actually committed suicide after his cancer diagnosis, stating he didn't want it to get the best of him.
Maria Cline
Like Tropic Thunder?
Make this
@Maria Cline I can't believe you would even have that kind of attitude! These people unfortunately died from devastating and debilitating illnesses! Where is your sympathy, empathy, or your heart? Good lord, you have a sick and morbid sense of humor and ...
I, too, have a dark sense of humor as well... I totally would watch that!
Trivia: Borte (whose name actually means grey, referring to her eyes) was actually part of the Olkhunut tribe, cousins of Temujin's mom, and daughter of Dei-Sechen They had their marriage arranged as kids, and Temujin's father was murdered by the Tartars on his way home from the betrothal. Despite the arrangement, they actually loved each other; go figure. There was no love triangle with Jamukha-what broke them apart was sharing of political power and Jamukha's insistence on keeping social segregation vs Temujin's basing of rank on loyalty and service.
Genghis' enslavement was by the Tayichiuds, and his escape aided by his guard, Sorqan-Shira.
Borte WAS kidnapped and possibly raped (this was suspected but never ascertained and vehemently denied by all) by the Merkits. Temujin promptly rescued her with the help of his blood brother Jamukha.
And of course, while Genghis Khan was a murderer and probably rapist, Mongol society was pretty egalitarian; he himself made his mother and Borte his main advisors
I read a dramatization (is that the right word?) of his early life, and when he rescues Borte and demands to know where her captor is, she's all "Already killed him" and he's all "Damn that's hot"
It was a fun read.
@@biffyqueen I like that LOL
I'm not sure you can say "while x was a murderer and a rapist, but...". Something about that phrasing doesn't work.
Like "Toby committed genocide and enjoyed putting out the eyes of puppies with hot irons, but he was in favor of a progressive tax policy!"
NOW I'M RADIOACTIVE! THAT CAN'T BE GOOD!!!
+Gratuitous Lurking
Perfect quote. YOU MUST HAVE HUGE GUTS!
THE RADIATION CAUSED ME TO GROW A SECOND TORSO! WHO'S A MAN AND A HALF?! *I'M* A MAN AND A HALF!
RIP AND TEAR, RIP AND TEAR YOUR GUTS!!!
DON'T NEED A GUN! GUNS ARE FOR WUSSES!
SpeedyEric1 PANTS ARE FOR THE WEAK!
9:33 - Look! A crowd of people more suitable for the role of Genghis Khan than John Wayne!
"90% of Asia are my children pilgrim." *Genghis John Wayne*
***** That does sound better.
Jonghis Kwayne
I DO love it when ppl reach a certain level of super-fame - That there's no one around them left to tell 'em: "Heyyyy.......Y'know, this might be a REALLY bad idea, fella" 😳
- Yeah maybe it's messed up, but I can't help that, it's FUNNY 🤣
....Go right ahead! You BE that famous-as-Alexander-the-Great Mongolian Historical figure, with the sellotaped eyes and the 'Asian' costume hat....
......You do YOU, Jay Dubya! 😹_👍
This show never gets old.
Yes it does, you just don`t get tired of it.
And YES, I made that comment JUST to be pedantic, because cinema snob does strange things to me..
@@afrog2666 As a fellow (ahem) sometimes anal-retentive grammar police, I couldn't've said it better myself! Mr. Jones has been one of my favs for at least the last five or six years, along with the Angry Video Game Nerd, Nostalgia Critic, Kitboga and especially RedLetterMedia, I'm all set with content.
He hides all his Gen X wrinkles, by using age-altering sellotape
that he hides under his characters prosthetic latex bald-cap. 🤫
@@geoffelder2236 Rich Evans / Brad Jones crossover where they both try that Juicy Shaq Meat?
This is one of most surreal things I have ever seen.
He sounds like he's saying his father's name is "Yes, a guy". "Yes, a guy is my father. Stop laughing!"
Oh, shut up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesugei
Americans have....trouble...with Mongolian
That bear would later go on to gain super powers and be casted in The Revenant.
Is he the Mutant Bear from "The Omen?"
Oldest bear in the world in that case lol, I think even Bart the bear is gone.
RIP Bart The Bear
I thought it mutated and got a supporting role in Prophecy, where it slapped the kid in a sleeping bag into a rock.
@@madhousemedia6134 I remember that movie from AMC. I've been trying to find it ever since.
And then he would be skinned and worn by Nicolas Cage in The Wicker Man
I'm Genghis Khan pilgrims :)
We almost got a Genghis Khan film with Steven Seagal? Holy shit!!
I know John Wayne isn't the greatest actor ever or anything, but God help me, I still love watching the guy.
i loved his classic westerns like the searchers and the sons of katie elder.
Yeah, he has that mysterious thing that could be termed 'The Shatner Effect' 😅
@@zetetick395 John Wayne played basically the same character in every role. John Wayne lol
I'd kind of love a Genghis Khan movie or TV show I mean he's the greatest conquer in human history while also being one of the the most polarizing figures theirs still countries in the middle east and Asia who haven't regained its old population after he destroyed them but he was also a great social reformer removing classism, cultural conflict and was the modern designer of the postal system in his empire it would be a great character to see on screen
YoDa BaKi Personally, I still think of Alexander as the greatest conquerer.
There are movies about him made in Asia that are actually more faithful, though the two I've seen are still pretty bad. Of course, I haven't seen many others, so maybe there are better ones.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0770722/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_22 - This one is just meh. The second half is terrible, but the first one is actually pretty cool. Takashi Sorimachi (lead actor) is really pretty.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0416044/ - This one has the same kind of laughably pretentious dialogue that the John Wayne version has. It's not as bad, but only because the badness of John Wayne version is hard to match. From a certain point of view it can be so-bad-it's-good material, tho.
there is it's called Mongol
The film Mongol is good, in my opinion.
I don't know what it's called but there is one out there, my high school history teacher gave extra credit to those who watched it.
This was the second worst thing to happen to St. George, Utah, the first being the nuclear fallout and the third being High School Musical 2. But, seriously I have family members who are downwinders and had either died or survived from cancer in their lives.
What?
No mention of the inbreeding?
@@afrog2666 You must be referring to the Wrong Turn family. Yeah, everybody confuses my family to them sometimes.
Wow High School Musical 2 was that bad?
I can sympathise - my wife's family lives in a region that has a military testing range in it and a nuke was detonated about 1,000 feet up and 45,000 soldiers did a training exercise in the fallout zone.
This was the USSR, so not 1 fuck was given about the civilians or the environment.
Not to mention there was an anti-mask rally a while back!
"CW McCall doing Shakespeare" I never wondered what that would sound like until now.
This movie! Someone in my family--my grandma maybe?--saw it in the test screening, because she was friends with a film critic, or something. I don't recall the whole story exactly. But whoever saw it said that the whole audience burst out laughing when "Genghis Khan" said "Which way did they go?" (a line John Wayne said in all of his cowboy movies, apparently).
"Send me men! Men!"
And then, for the first time in history, it just started raining men.
Maybe it sounds better in a western, or maybe John Wayne tries harder in those; but his line reading in this sounded like he just woke up and somebody slapped the script to his face and he had to immediately read it.
Before Braveheart and 300, there was the Conquerer
I lost my shit when John Wayne slapped her!!!!!! It's so out of nowhere! he's like "your beautiful, kiss. "How dare you make me have a none barbarian response, this will show you" Great scene, best comedy I have ever seen reviewed.
YOU'RE A TARTAR PRINCESS
That would be a good name for a fish restaurant.
Tartar(e) sauce.
As soon as you said John Wayne as Ghengis Khan I said WTF out loud. Well played sir! 🙂👍🏻
I think it would be... "interesting" if an experienced fan editor took I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE but added the soundtrack of THE CONQUEROR onto it.
Sean Connery is the same way with NEVER changing his voice for an acting roll.. I was laughing so hard when I heard Sean Connery asking what Hagus (sp?) in Highlander'..'
Liglerian I’m not spanish I’m Egyptian.
Liglerian Ha! Yes, the Scotsman Connery playing an Egyptian Spaniard with a Scot accent and costarring a Frenchman as a Scotsman with a Frog accent was pretty funny.
BTW, it's _haggis_ , in case you still care :)
In The Hunt for Red October it is good he have accent since Marko Ramius is not russian but from Lithaunia.
John Wayne's rape face XD
which one?
+Wolfgang Ervin Probably the scene that sounds like "From Here to Eternity," but LOOKS like "I Spit On Your Grave."
As goofy as it is, I think I prefer John Wayne not trying to do a Mongolian accent at all and just keeping his voice normal. Sure, it's not authentic, but neither are white Engrish-speakers in Mongolia at that point in history. Sucks to suck, but at least he tried, right?
john Doe I didn't mention the plot at all, and I didn't mean to reference it, either. I only meant that John Wayne's performance, while definitely not great, could be worse.
D-Glad still better than steven Segal
Movie still blows.
John Wayne never tried to do anything but memorize the script, he`s John Wayne in every role, just like Seagal or Shatner lol.
It seems Wayne’s delivery was made worse by the stilted dialog.
Anyone kinda shocked that the musical score of this film is actually superb?
The casting reminds me of a movie I've heard about. It tells the story of Finland's Marshal Mannerheim but as it is told trough the imagination of some African children, Mannerheim is black in the movie. :'D I hear the movie is not that good but that idea sure is a good spoof of many Hollywood movies both old and new where they always imagine important people to be white.
Except that it was never meant to be a spoof. It was supposed to be a modern take on Mannerheim, which apparently means he's a black man in Kenya. A terrible idea and a terrible film
Seriously what was up with that frickin music?!
You know, I think this movie's Genghis Khan is more rapey than the real guy
It was the 50s, where people believed that a woman struggling against a kiss is only playing hard to get and if a good looking or popular guy kisses or f**** her, she has to be into it eventually. She only doesn't know it yet.
[Holds up sarcasm sign] Good old times
To be honest, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History brought me here.
Pedro Armendariz was a Mexican actor. His son played the "President of Isthmus" in Licence to Kill(1989).
at 0924, beautiful shaped clear polished nails. Max factor doing some time travelling !
I've been a John Wayne fan all my life and it's hard to beleive that the same year (1956) The Duke gave one of his greatest roles as Ethan Edwards in "The Searchers he decided to play Genghis Khan in"The Conqueror"!!😮😅
City Wok did the catering for this movie.
If The Conqeror was made in Hong Kong, and they also have Mongolian casts in it, then that movie would be 65 to 80 percent better than John Wayne's version.
It seems like you've got your wish as there was a movie about the early life of Temüjin (Genghis Khan) in 2008 called MONGOL with Tadanobu Asano (Hogun from the Marvel THOR movies) as the main lead.
Or the Takashi Sorimachi version. God, he was sooo pretty.
"Don't wantcha to get it on with nobody else but me, pilgrim." - John Wayne, 1192 AD
Love the Agnes Morehead/Bewitched jokes, especially turning him into a field mouse lol
As atrocious as this is, it's Best Picture material compared to what Steven Seagal's 'Genghis Khan' would have been.
oooh... the movie that killed john wayne...
Murcia doxial *LITERALLY!*
Murcia doxial well, that and his smoking habit. Regardless of the cause, neither of these things helped
That’s John Hoyt as the shaman. Hilarious seeing him in yellowface, particularly when he played in a movie called “wetbacks” the same year.
The fact that there's actually IRRADIATED DRINKING WATER though, and rolling on the ground. Man alive!
The horse time machine had me tearing 😂 you are hilarious
The town with no names main. Character sounds exactly like John Wayne’s character in this
I'm just looking forward to the bigger-budget remake of the Conqueror, with a dark and gritty tone, and Joaquin Phoenix
Another interesting fact is two of John Wayne sons Michael and Patrick were in the film playing guards must’ve been fun seeing their dad speak broken English 😩
But so fun for them getting radiation poisoning
Historically, Genghis Khan founded the Mongol Empire by uniting nomadic tribes in Central Asia. Khan was brutal but more in the scope of a sociopath than a psychopath. He did use terror and did kill many innocents. He was fascinated with knowledge that the Mongols could use but famously scorned ' useless' knowledge. The objective was booty as in plunder; Much of said booty was dispensed to buy loyalty or reward it. One must remember that before an Empire, Mongols were clans. Inter-Clan warfare was frequent. While much of the Mongol brutality was simply to prove superiority, much was quite calculated. The same idea was often used by other empires. Khan was a complex historical character who defied later attempts to simplify him.
Okay I'm pretty sure "he was an omnicidal SOCIOPATH, not a psychopath who wasn't totally brainless" isn't really defying any "later attempts". I don't know why so many people in the comments are like "oh sure he was a monster but did you know he liked to crochet?!?! Bet you didn't checkmate athiests".
I think the TV series about his life might work instead of a whole movie Just my opinion
As a woman... I'm laughing my ass off :b
Funny thing is the earliest account of Ghangis Khan describes him as having ginger hair and green eyes
Close to 10 years later we got John Wayne as a first century Roman Centurion 😂😂😂😂😂😂
No Steven Seagal as as Genhis Khan? Well we did get Gerard Butler as Attila the Hun. Will that do Cinema Snob?
Oh, I've seen parts of that one. It was the worst Hallmark shit and I loved it.
Seagal almost did star in a movie as Genghis Khan. No, really.
@@michaelmyers3709 That would have been AWESOME!!! 😉🤣🤣
"What's this womans talk, my mother."
Literally any other leading man from that era and the movie would have been a classic.
😢😢 This movie makes me cry for all the wrong reasons. Its like how is it that Howard Hughs was 1 of the richest men in America making schlock like this, buying all copies of this schlock, & building the Spruce Goose???
This really is like John Wayne *doing a John Wayne impression* in this movie! (like in about half of his movies) 😅
- He's in that small band of actors who have fantastic presence, are culturally significant, and are well loved by all us movie fans,
buuuuut, not actually that great an actor, (when, say, compared to some of their amazing 'character actor' contemporaries)..........William Shatner also comes to mind in this regard....
the soundtrack was confused, lmbo
In retrospect that's exactly how every "true story" is and their slogan.
I can only think that people were still traumatized by ww2 to place music like that in those scenes.
This area was so dangerous, you know, from being downwind from nuclear fallout and whatnot, that I half-expected the film print to look like the radioactively degraded film (static/spots) of Chernobyl footage! I'm surprised in addition to bringing back some contaminated soil with them, that they didn't sprinkle in some crushed irradiated graphite as well, for an added contrast to the light-colored sand, you see!
What the fuck, Mr. Snob, what the fuck indeed!
Omg your face after he slaps her. XD
6:50 did they really accompany basically what was sexual assault with dramatic romantic music like it's supposed to be some sort of amazing moment?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I just wanted to simply point out to everyone replying on Brad's videos that he has some of the most enjoyable, observant and hilarious comment sections of any others I ever have read. Kudos to my fellow Stoned Gremlin Production fans!
When he slapped her, I was really hoping for a #superdupermegafeminist
This is the best way to view that movie.
Have I been binge watching this cinema snob series for so long I'm back to fucking 360p days?
Damn you cinema snob, damn you to hell!
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They should have casted Yul Brynner as title character.
Whoo boy. overlaying a very rapey (ahem, "rapine'y") scene with romantic musicals is really fuckin telling about how we view rape societally.
In other words: YiiiiIIIIiIIIiIIIIIIIkes!!!!!
You know, I think this movie's Genghis Khan is more rapey than the real guy
I watch a convoluted movie drunk then be spun around for three minutes straight, and I'd still be less confused than this movie.
Wonderful! I’m so glad I happened on this video: it’s introduced me to your superlative channel
Watching again because of the documentary about this film came out
"Fun" fact: in one of his early works Dick Powell, the director of this film also directed Split Second a film about a group of people who is held hostage by to convicts in a ghost town that was selected for an atom bomb test
How ironic
If I were Howard Hughes, I'd buy every single existing print from the film and destroy them so no one in the future can watch it.
How did I not hear of this before now?!
0:00-0:11
"Welcome to a new episode of the Cinema Snob, where we look at a Hollywood movie that's so WTF, it's radioactive"
(canned Booing)
I DON'T GET THE JOKE!!
Wow! I didn't know that The Emoji Movie wasn't the first film to give people cancer, it was the first film in 60 years to accomplish such a feat!
Horrorkid 908 well, to accomplish such a feat so fucking well
Jeezums, those moments when John Wayne would force himself on her with a lusty look on his face while romantic music kept playing are downright skin-crawling uncomfortable. You could insert the scene into a psycho-thriller and it would fit perfectly.
And now I know why Howard Hughes was so obsessed with recapturing all the film canisters of the heap of shit. For in essence, it's the greatest, most numerous snuff film of all time. Sure they weren't offed on film, but many many of the on and behind the scenes talent met an early grave. But I'm sure Mr. Hughes, the richest man in the world at the time as well as a military aerospace industrialist was quite aware of the absolutely lethal radiation levels here out in the super-nuked Nevada desert.
Whitewashing is a weird stuff. For men, they wanted to remain true to the character racial features (or at least, a stereotypical depiction of it). But for women, especially the love interest, they just didnt care. They would just go find the cutest white woman in the world and then cast her regardless of whether she can be passed off as the race she is playing. Even in 1965 Genghis Khan they cast a blonde french woman as Borte without caring how her hair and accent make her so out of place.
Btw the 1965 movie was so much better, way more dedicated in portraying Genghis Khan life as accurate as possible. Probably would recommend if it was not for the whitewashing.
WHY have all these male TGWTG people gone bald lately; First it was Doug Walker, NOW It's Brad Jones, who's next, Angry Joe?
Age is a cruel thing.
Wait, how did I not know this was on the Snob's current channel?!
I also never paid attention to the comments about the backstory.
9:20 20 noes and a yes... means yes.
Disney's Mulan Reboot is basically the Modern Day version of the Counquerer.
Actors being put in serious danger... So it's one of Doug Walker's films if he had an actual budget? ;)
I love this movie
So a rare case where you can say that a movie literally killed an actor
"Most wonderfully bad, and not very good, was it?" Leonard Pinth Garnell, "Bad Cinema -SNL
This is the weirdest episode of Star Trek TOS. I had no clue John Wayne played a Klingon..
That looks pretty much like every 1950s period piece, except of course the really dark/shocking backstory and the rather bad performance by John Wayne. I'm pretty sure the movie would have been much better with Richard Burto instead of John Wayne.
French Paul 1988 Or an actual Asian.
Plus the bad script, dialogues and everything. It's like if you took Ten Commandements, King And I, Ben Hur or Cleopatra and cut everything that made these movies good despite their flaws.
There's a feature length documentary about downwinders and the story behind the rumor that John Wayne and others on the film were killed due to nuclear radiation called "DOWNWINDERS - Did the Government kill John Wayne?" You can see the trailer for it here: czcams.com/video/srbMbqlLsxo/video.html
In the style of Wang Chung:
Everybody Wayne Khan tonight! (Everybody Wayne Khan tonight...)
loads of horses put down as well I presume.
Tbh... I think if John Wayne wanted to go outside his western cowboy roots... he probably would have done better as a swashbuckling pirate....
This tragedy won't have happened if these guys should have pick a better location anywhere in Asia for their set.
Which place in Asia would be perfect for shooting The Conqueror?
It would have been interesting if they made a movie that draws some kind of analogy between Genghis Khan and the typical John Wayne-esque hero, instead of just using him for an unfitting soap opera plot while pretending to care about historical accuracy.
That would have made for a better film than this turkey. A story of two seemingly disconnected worlds from two different periods being more alike than they realised.