Good cast, horrible movie

[Silver Moon]

The Conqueror (1956)

John Wayne ... Temujin, later Genghis Khan
Susan Hayward ... Bortai
Agnes Moorehead ... Hunlun
John Hoyt ... Shaman
William Conrad ... Kasar
Lee Van Cleef ... Chepei

The kicker to this is that not onlyis it an awful film, but the sand used on the Hollywood sound stage where it was filmed was trucked in from an above-ground nuclear test site. The majority of the cast and crew associated with this movie later died of cancer.

 

[Mark]

The kicker to this is that not onlyis it an awful film, but the sand used on the Hollywood sound stage where it was filmed was trucked in from an above-ground nuclear test site. The majority of the cast and crew associated with this movie later died of cancer.

That's a new one on me. Where you'd glean that tidbit of trivia?

 

[Pbartender]

That's a new one on me. Where you'd glean that tidbit of trivia?

IMDB Trivia, The Conqueror (1956)

Also, at Wikipedia

And also, from the Straight Dope archives

There's much more to be found with a Google search.

 

[Reneshat]

Eragon

John Malkovich
Jeremy Irons

How was I supposed to know this would be awful, well, other than actually trying to read the book first....

 

[Ranger REG]

War of the World starring Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning.

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace starring Ewan McGregor, Samuel L Jackson, and Liam Neeson.

 

[Felon]

IMDB Trivia, The Conqueror (1956)

Also, at Wikipedia

And also, from the Straight Dope archives

There's much more to be found with a Google search.

Well, this subject is a matter of speculation.

 

[Pbartender]

Well, this subject is a matter of speculation.

What's speculation? Only perhaps the correlation between the cancer deaths and filming in the radiation areas is speculation. Though it's certainly a reasonable speculation.

The rest -- filming in an area suffering from fallout from nuclear tests, shipping radioactive sand from the area to a sound stage for use in later filming, and higher than normal cancer rates for that particular cast and crew -- that's all well documented fact.

 

[Mark]

Fascintating stuff. Thanks for the info.

 

[Rl'Halsinor]

Nothing But Trouble

Dan Akroyd
John Candy
Chevy Chase

It's like a Who's Who of 80's comedy. . . and it's one of the worst films I've ever witnessed. I still have scars.

QFT. I hate this movie. It was supposed to be a comedy but can anyone tell me what was funny in it or about it???

Seriously, can someone please tell me what this movie is about?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Pet Cemetary (1989)

Dale Midkiff
Denise Crosby
Fred Gwynne

This movie stunk so bad t, I want my 103 minutes back from watching it.