Your eyes say no, but the orchestra playing the soundtrack says yes.

The way John Wayne pronounces "Jamuga" sounds like the name of a Starbucks drink

I absolutely lost it when he got to the part about Wayne sounding like C.W. McCall doing Shakespeare. Oh god, that's priceless.

I want to see a film made about the people making the Conqueor. That would be hilarious. Kinda dark but hilarious.

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.

9:33 - Look! A crowd of people more suitable for the role of Genghis Khan than John Wayne!

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.

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

NOW I'M RADIOACTIVE! THAT CAN'T BE GOOD!!!

This show never gets old.

Land contaminated by nuclear fallout? Caucasian people dressing up as Mongols and Genghis Khan? This sounds exactly like something from the Fallout video games.

"90% of Asia are my children pilgrim." *Genghis John Wayne*

I'm Genghis Khan pilgrims :)

This is one of most surreal things I have ever seen.

That bear would later go on to gain super powers and be casted in The Revenant.

We almost got a Genghis Khan film with Steven Seagal? Holy shit!!

He sounds like he's saying his father's name is "Yes, a guy". "Yes, a guy is my father. Stop laughing!"

"CW McCall doing Shakespeare" I never wondered what that would sound like until now.

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

I know John Wayne isn't the greatest actor ever or anything, but God help me, I still love watching the guy.

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.

Before Braveheart and 300, there was the Conquerer

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.

"Send me men! Men!" And then, for the first time in history, it just started raining men.

YOU'RE A TARTAR PRINCESS

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.

As soon as you said John Wayne as Ghengis Khan I said WTF out loud. Well played sir! 🙂👍🏻

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.

John Wayne's rape face XD

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'..'

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.

Pedro Armendariz was a Mexican actor. His son played the "President of Isthmus" in Licence to Kill(1989).

Seriously what was up with that frickin music?!

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"!!😮😅

To be honest, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History brought me here.

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?

City Wok did the catering for this movie.

Anyone kinda shocked that the musical score of this film is actually superb?

"Don't wantcha to get it on with nobody else but me, pilgrim." - John Wayne, 1192 AD

Love the Agnes Morehead/Bewitched jokes, especially turning him into a field mouse lol

The fact that there's actually IRRADIATED DRINKING WATER though, and rolling on the ground. Man alive!

at 0924, beautiful shaped clear polished nails. Max factor doing some time travelling !

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 😩

That’s John Hoyt as the shaman. Hilarious seeing him in yellowface, particularly when he played in a movie called “wetbacks” the same year.

The town with no names main. Character sounds exactly like John Wayne’s character in this

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.

The horse time machine had me tearing 😂 you are hilarious

I'm just looking forward to the bigger-budget remake of the Conqueror, with a dark and gritty tone, and Joaquin Phoenix

Wonderful! I’m so glad I happened on this video: it’s introduced me to your superlative channel

oooh... the movie that killed john wayne...

As atrocious as this is, it's Best Picture material compared to what Steven Seagal's 'Genghis Khan' would have been.

"What's this womans talk, my mother."

Funny thing is the earliest account of Ghangis Khan describes him as having ginger hair and green eyes

😢😢 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???

Close to 10 years later we got John Wayne as a first century Roman Centurion 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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!

Literally any other leading man from that era and the movie would have been a classic.

No Steven Seagal as as Genhis Khan? Well we did get Gerard Butler as Attila the Hun. Will that do Cinema Snob?

the soundtrack was confused, lmbo

In retrospect that's exactly how every "true story" is and their slogan.

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 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!

Omg your face after he slaps her. XD

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!

I can only think that people were still traumatized by ww2 to place music like that in those scenes.

Watching again because of the documentary about this film came out

As a woman... I'm laughing my ass off :b

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?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This is the best way to view that movie.

How did I not hear of this before now?!

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.

"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

I watch a convoluted movie drunk then be spun around for three minutes straight, and I'd still be less confused than this movie.

I love this movie

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!!

When he slapped her, I was really hoping for a #superdupermegafeminist

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.

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.

9:20 20 noes and a yes... means yes.

They should have casted Yul Brynner as title character.

Actors being put in serious danger... So it's one of Doug Walker's films if he had an actual budget? ;)

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.

Disney's Mulan Reboot is basically the Modern Day version of the Counquerer.

Wow! I didn't know that The Emoji Movie wasn't the first film to give people cancer, it was the first film in 60 years to accomplish such a feat!

Whoo boy. overlaying a very rapey (ahem, "rapine'y") scene with romantic musicals is really fuckin telling about how we view rape societally. In other words: YiiiiIIIIiIIIiIIIIIIIkes!!!!!

loads of horses put down as well I presume.

I hope you get to do Son of Sinbad, another Howard Hughes epic ....with Vincent Price as Omar Khayyam!

This is the weirdest episode of Star Trek TOS. I had no clue John Wayne played a Klingon..

"Most wonderfully bad, and not very good, was it?" Leonard Pinth Garnell, "Bad Cinema -SNL

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?

So a rare case where you can say that a movie literally killed an actor

Welcome to a new episode

For additional scenes needed in Hollywood, they transported sand from the location. How does that grab you?

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WHY have all these male TGWTG people gone bald lately; First it was Doug Walker, NOW It's Brad Jones, who's next, Angry Joe?

''send me men, man''

In the style of Wang Chung: Everybody Wayne Khan tonight! (Everybody Wayne Khan tonight...)

I'm kinda surprised Fallout: New Vegas didn't have some sort of reference to this mess; they already had a Howard-Hughes-but-for-Robotics character.

4:15 I laughed way too hard at that