The Conqueror (1956) | |
| Director(s) | Dick Powell |
| Producer(s) | Dick Powell, Howard Hughes (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Biographical, Drama, Epic, Historical |
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The Conqueror (1956) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Dick Powell and produced by Howard Hughes and Dick Powell.
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ERIK THE CONQUEROR On Arrow Blu-ray
By Dan Day Jr. on Sep 12, 2017 From The Hitless Wonder Movie BlogArrow Video delves once again into the work of the Italian Maestro of cinematic fantasy with their release of Mario Bava's 1961 Viking epic ERIK THE CONQUEROR. A number of Viking adventure films were made in Europe during the 1960s, at the height of the sword & sandal genre known as peplum. Mar... Read full article
THE CONQUEROR
By Dan Day Jr. on Apr 19, 2016 From The Hitless Wonder Movie BlogNot too long ago I wrote a post about an issue of the Official John Wayne magazine that ranked each one of the Duke's movies in order of quality. The lowest-ranked film in which Wayne played the lead role was THE CONQUEROR (1955), a production which has a horrible reputation. I stated that THE CONQU... Read full article
Caesar the Conqueror - Giulio Cesare, il conquistatore delle Gallie? (1962)
By Clayton on May 3, 2014 From Phantom EmpiresCaesar the Conqueror - Giulio Cesare, il conquistatore delle Gallie? (1962) 5/3/2014 0 Comments Cameron Mitchell has always been a slow rumble in the background of my movie and television experience. Throughout the 70's and 80's, I saw... Read full article
Caesar the Conqueror - Giulio Cesare, il conquistatore delle Gallie (1962)
By Clayton on May 3, 2014 From Phantom EmpiresCaesar the Conqueror - Giulio Cesare, il conquistatore delle Gallie (1962) 5/3/2014 0 Comments Cameron Mitchell has always been a slow rumble in the background of my movie and television experience. Throughout the 70's and 80's, I saw him in dozens of suppo... Read full article
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Quotes from The Conqueror
Hunlun: My son has won the world. Still he must conquer that red-headed Jezebel.
Bortai: The Conqueror? Mighty armies cannot stop him. But one touch of my lips... Yes, he captured me - but he cannot tame me.
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Facts about The Conqueror
The film is sometimes called "An RKO Radioactive Picture." It was filmed near a nuclear test site, and the set was contaminated by nuclear fallout. Photographs exist of John Wayne holding a Geiger counter. After location shooting, contaminated soil was transported back to Hollywood in order to match interior shooting done there. Over the next 20 years, many actors and crew members developed cancer. People Magazine researched the cast and crew's health for an article. By the time it was published, in November 1980, 91 of the 220 cast and crew members had developed cancer. Forty-six had died, including John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz (who shot himself soon after learning he had terminal cancer), Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt and director Dick Powell. The count did not include several hundred local Native Americans who played extras, or relatives of the cast and crew who visited the set, including John Wayne's son Michael Wayne. The article quoted the reaction of a scientist from the Pentagon's Defense Nuclear Agency to the news, "Please, God, don't let us have killed
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