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http://searchforschlock.com/media/podcasts/sfs-045-Conqueror.mp3 Download MP3 According to Hollywood legend, The Conqueror got made when John Wayne picked up a copy of the script from director Dick Powell's desk and remarked that it was a lot like a Western. The fact that it was the story of famous Mongol leader Genghis Khan -- to whom Wayne did not bare a striking resemblance -- was overlooked, as was the fact that the screenplay itself was crap, because who can say 'no' to John Wayne in the mid-1950s? Wayne, with a slight tan and a borderline-offensive pasted-on fu manchu moustache, is still basically John Wayne, and that makes him about as out-of-place as possible in a sprawling Oriental epic like this one. (Imagine him as Hamlet, and you'll get the idea.) Besides damaging their careers, filming The Conqueror may have led to the cast and crew's unusually high rate of deadly cancers, and it's one of the few films that producer Howard Hughes watched on a continuous loop while bottling his own urine, perhaps