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 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!
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! 😹_👍
@@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.
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'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.
John Wayne was a 5-pack a day smoker (that’s 100 cigarettes a day) for 30 years before this movie was made. There’s really no question smoking was what gave him cancer. Likewise with The Conquerer’s director, who had been a chain smoker since he was a teenager.
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 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! 😹_👍
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 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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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....
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"!!😮😅
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 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!
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
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 😩
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?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
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!!
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!
😢😢 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???
"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
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.
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 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?
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.
+EarthboundX He had no choice but to be the star in this film, his production company Batjac helped produce and finance the film. Wayne wanted Marlon Brando for the role of Genghis Khan but certain figureheads at 20th Century Fox nixed that and said no so Duke had no choice but to add his name since he couldn't get Brando and the movie needed a big name star to draw people to see it. It was a bad casting choice yes, but it was done out of necessity and the movie probably shouldn't have been made to begin with.
I've seen Liberty Valance many times, its a classic. Very few people appreciate John Wayne's style of acting. There's a reason he holds the record for most lead performances by any actor. He had talent he just had to have the right script to pull it off. The Conqueror wasn't it.
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 😊
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!
The way John Wayne pronounces "Jamuga" sounds like the name of a Starbucks drink
"Jamuga" ?
....Can I have mine with skimmed milk, J.W? 😹_👍
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 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?
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!"
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.
John Wayne was a 5-pack a day smoker (that’s 100 cigarettes a day) for 30 years before this movie was made. There’s really no question smoking was what gave him cancer. Likewise with The Conquerer’s director, who had been a chain smoker since he was a teenager.
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...
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!
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.
9:33 - Look! A crowd of people more suitable for the role of Genghis Khan than John Wayne!
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
"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! 😹_👍
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 is one of most surreal things I have ever seen.
I'm Genghis Khan pilgrims :)
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
"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).
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
"Send me men! Men!"
And then, for the first time in history, it just started raining men.
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!
As soon as you said John Wayne as Ghengis Khan I said WTF out loud. Well played sir! 🙂👍🏻
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.
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.
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.
We almost got a Genghis Khan film with Steven Seagal? Holy shit!!
Pedro Armendariz was a Mexican actor. His son played the "President of Isthmus" in Licence to Kill(1989).
Before Braveheart and 300, there was the Conquerer
This is the weirdest episode of Star Trek TOS. I had no clue John Wayne played a Klingon..
Anyone kinda shocked that the musical score of this film is actually superb?
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.
The horse time machine had me tearing 😂 you are hilarious
Wonderful! I’m so glad I happened on this video: it’s introduced me to your superlative channel
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."
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....
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.
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
Love the Agnes Morehead/Bewitched jokes, especially turning him into a field mouse lol
To be honest, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History brought me here.
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!
"Don't wantcha to get it on with nobody else but me, pilgrim." - John Wayne, 1192 AD
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
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
Funny thing is the earliest account of Ghangis Khan describes him as having ginger hair and green eyes
The town with no names main. Character sounds exactly like John Wayne’s character in this
at 0924, beautiful shaped clear polished nails. Max factor doing some time travelling !
Literally any other leading man from that era and the movie would have been a classic.
Tbh... I think if John Wayne wanted to go outside his western cowboy roots... he probably would have done better as a swashbuckling pirate....
As atrocious as this is, it's Best Picture material compared to what Steven Seagal's 'Genghis Khan' would have been.
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'm just looking forward to the bigger-budget remake of the Conqueror, with a dark and gritty tone, and Joaquin Phoenix
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!
That’s John Hoyt as the shaman. Hilarious seeing him in yellowface, particularly when he played in a movie called “wetbacks” the same year.
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.
I feel more bad for the horses than any of the people
"What's this womans talk, my mother."
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!!! 😉🤣🤣
Don't be upset, Snob. I'll review that Steven Segal/Genghis Khan for you.
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.
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!!
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!
The fact that there's actually IRRADIATED DRINKING WATER though, and rolling on the ground. Man alive!
This is the best way to view that movie.
Omg your face after he slaps her. XD
Watching again because of the documentary about this film came out
9:20 20 noes and a yes... means yes.
the soundtrack was confused, lmbo
I can only think that people were still traumatized by ww2 to place music like that in those scenes.
😢😢 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???
12:49-13:01 What's this song from?
loads of horses put down as well I presume.
"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
In retrospect that's exactly how every "true story" is and their slogan.
Close to 10 years later we got John Wayne as a first century Roman Centurion 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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
I watch a convoluted movie drunk then be spun around for three minutes straight, and I'd still be less confused than this movie.
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.
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6:53 Is She a romulan?
I hope you get to do Son of Sinbad, another Howard Hughes epic ....with Vincent Price as Omar Khayyam!
18:59- Wasn't this part of Trump's Inauguration speech?
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.
When he slapped her, I was really hoping for a #superdupermegafeminist
So a rare case where you can say that a movie literally killed an actor
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
Actors being put in serious danger... So it's one of Doug Walker's films if he had an actual budget? ;)
"Most wonderfully bad, and not very good, was it?" Leonard Pinth Garnell, "Bad Cinema -SNL
For additional scenes needed in Hollywood, they transported sand from the location. How does that grab you?
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?
They call her tartar sauce
They should have casted Yul Brynner as title character.
In the style of Wang Chung:
Everybody Wayne Khan tonight! (Everybody Wayne Khan tonight...)
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.
God John Wayne is just awful in this movie. Biggest miscast ever.
+EarthboundX He had no choice but to be the star in this film, his production company Batjac helped produce and finance the film. Wayne wanted Marlon Brando for the role of Genghis Khan but certain figureheads at 20th Century Fox nixed that and said no so Duke had no choice but to add his name since he couldn't get Brando and the movie needed a big name star to draw people to see it. It was a bad casting choice yes, but it was done out of necessity and the movie probably shouldn't have been made to begin with.
to be fair; John Wayne is aweful in general. The exception of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" I won't spoil why.
I've seen Liberty Valance many times, its a classic. Very few people appreciate John Wayne's style of acting. There's a reason he holds the record for most lead performances by any actor. He had talent he just had to have the right script to pull it off. The Conqueror wasn't it.
+BigBlueFan1987 that had a lot to do with the fact that he rose to prominence during war time when the leading men of Hollywood almost all enlisted.
+Hope Blanding And he outlasted all of them as well. He was and still is the greatest actor ever.
Disney's Mulan Reboot is basically the Modern Day version of the Counquerer.
As a woman... I'm laughing my ass off :b
What's the song where Borte is dancing with the ribbon?
You'd think whoever did a song like "Cock a doodle doo" would be super easy to find, but no.