There are many films that have picked up a repute for being “ cursed , ” and one that may actually deserve it . It ’s the lingering effects of radiation that ghost this moving picture . And in true revulsion picture show fashion , the celluloid gang brought the curse home with them .
The Conqueror has developed many different bad reputations , and deserves every one of them . It cast John Wayne as Genghis Khan . It let in dialogue like , “ I steal you . I will keep you . Before the sun sets you will number volitionally to my arms . ” And it may have killed many of the people working on it .
Instead of live to the disbursal of shooting in Mongolia , the motion-picture show was shoot in St. George , Utah , which was comparatively close to Hollywood . It was even closer to the Nevada Test Site . Over 800 atomic bombs were set off at the internet site , and although none were sic off during the three month of the shoot , the roll was eating , drunkenness , and bathing in contaminated material . The Conqueror first bring in its reputation as a “ unsaved ” production when it bombed at the box office , but as the years went on , the public get a line of the effects of atomic bomb , and the death bell for the movie cast climb up , the film became known for another kind of hex . This was the geological era of glamourous mountain range smokers , and there is no room to establish the prison term spent in St. George as the campaign of the later health problems for the cast , but thefilm ’s five biggeststars all died of cancer .
Nobody live precisely how many occupier of St. George died due to the contamination of their air , water system , and soil , but some counts forecast thathalf the towncontracted cancer . Just to round out the disaster , The Conqueror wreak its contaminant home plate . Concerned that re - shoots on a Hollywood lot would n’t match the coloration of the Utah mountains , Howard Hughes , the producer , insist that the crew contribute backsixty tonsof soil back to Los Angeles . So if you ’re in the area , do n’t breathe too much .
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