THE CONQUEROR

To be perfectly honest, I've only seen probably less than a minute of this particular film, but that was more than enough for me to see how much it SUCKED. While some channels seemingly play 24-hour-a-day John Wayne movie marathons, this is one film by The Duke--other than, of course, his hilariously bad early black & white B-westerns--that these channels WON'T play, and with apparently damn good reason! In this film which was produced by Howard Hughes (yes, THAT Howard Hughes!), John Wayne plays--and, no, I'm NOT making this up!--Genghis Khan (yes, THAT Genghis Khan!). John Wayne, while I'm certainly NOT the biggest John Wayne fan (especially his public persona as right-wing hypocrite/racist doesn't even begin to cover it!), was good at playing the character he created John Wayne (his real name being, believe it or not, Marion Morrison). When he ventured beyond that, like he did big time in THIS flick, the results are, well, disastrous. So diastrous, in fact, that The Conqueror routinely makes it in many a film reviewers "worst films of all-time" list. If THAT doesn't convince you just how shitty this flick truly is, then I guess you'll just how to see it for yourself, won't you? (That is, if you dare!)