The Conqueror (1956) - The Objectively Worst Film Ever Made

I dunno, one million years bc was really bad.

The film was shot in 1954. Only 1 year after the 1953 test series

I hate bad movies such as this awful movie

And i like the year 2026 because that year will be an interesed year obviously

And sorry for ruin the year 2026

So oops!

“What was Vorta supposed to like about the guy,”. That was pretty common and old movies, and basically just wish fulfillment for older men.

“91 developed cancer of 221 cast and crew, and about 45 died of it,”. That is totally….the AVERAGE US cancer rate, which according to the SEER epidemiology statistics, is that HALF of the US population will get cancer at some point (50% lifetime risk) and about 25% of Americans die of cancer. So by the numbers, there was NOTHING unusual about that level of cancer….it is basically right at the US average risk.

It only seems unusual as people tend to underestimate how common cancer is, or to only focus on the cancers that don5 have good treatments yet, and not count the many cancers that are now fairly treatable.

Even people back in the day thought this was awful. As much as i like his other movies, John Wayne worst movie would have to be this one alongside The Green Beret's, In Harm's Way and The Alamo.

The star wars movies are only bad relative to the originals. There are thousands of movies worse.

Wang Khan almost sounds anagram of John Wanye

Agnes Moorehead, a natural!

She was wonderful in Bewitched (1964-1972).

Susan Hayward has the distinction of starring in two great Hollywood stinkers: The Conqueror and Valley of the Dolls.

Wow!

Pedro Armendariz Sr. was a Mexican actor. He was cast as Ali Kerim Bay in the James Bond 007 film From Russia With Love(1963).

This was a truly accurate FARCE

Howard Hughes hated this movie so much that he would spend millions of dollars to get all the copies he could that were out there and have them destroyed. He also kept one copy watched it all time to torture himself.

there was another version of the story, Genghis Khan 1965... and it is just as worse as this one

Pretty good review except for the part about why would the girl love a bad guy. I've got news for you, they do all the fucking time, even known serial killers have female admirers and it's true women are attracted to tough guy leader types. 1950s were better at portraying male and female nature. in Clown world where 2+2=5 it's controversial to say 2+2=4

They should remake it with Brad Pitt as Gengis.

Yes Wayne was terribly miscast but who at the time could have been cast in the role that it would have been a success?

😂 😂

I would be neat if we could hear the actors instead of you.

John Wayne the racist who believed in white supremacy and married a Latina starring in this film. What the actual fcuk...??

This is such a bad movie that it gives bad movies a bad name.

It's better then most shit now

an iron curtain back then was a thing, HOWEVER, Tamujin, HOWEVER, Ginghis Khan. However, Husband, Atomic Energy, however St George, worst thing ever, however, it can get so much worse.

In fairness to John Wayne. I recently watched an interview with Patrick Wayne. He acknowledged this movie and said it was the studio contract system. When they said you were going to make a movie, you made it.

This film should of had Jack Palance, Yul Brynner and Charles Bronson all had Tartar features a Cowboy John Wayne is a miscast Irish man ha ha .

"Please, God, don't let us have killed John Wayne."

Not even CLOSE to the worst movie ever. Not even the worst Duke movie. No masterpiece by ANY means but a good popcorn muncher for an afternoon or with nothing better on🤷🏼‍♂️🤓😎✌🏼🤠

You’re not an intellectual for using the word “objectively” to talk down on a movie seventy years old.

Too bad so many people died making it.

Wayne was not a Cowboy and was great in many movies where he played other kinds of characters.

On the other hand, he was usually not good in parts in movies that require accents (with the possible exception of Ford's The Long Voyage Home, but that was early in his career as a major lead acter, playing a supporting part).

Additionally, the part was badly written and the story made little sense.

Dick Powell was a gifted film maker (see, e.g., The Enemy Below; The Hunters). How he screwed this up, I don't know . . . .

John Wayne is the only person who fought and was a hero in every war in American history without ever having been in any branch of the American military.

John Wayne smoked 6 packs of cigs a day for decades and statistically the rest of the cast fell in line with the average cancer rate. The national rate is ~38% while the cast and crew of this film was ~41%.

The conqueror was a bad movie, but the idea it got people killed is completely unfounded.

When is the 4K edition coming out 😜

Fun fact, John Wayne and the production company had trucks sand from that desert dug up and brought to the studio for close up shots. I never found out how many were effect by this act.

40 people out of 200 eventually died from cancer (eventually, not within 5 years like Chernobyl. Some died more than 30 years later) after shooting a movie at a time when cigarettes were considered a food group (John Wayne had a 5 pack a day habit and the director, according to his widow, was a voracious chain smoker the entire time she knew him). Your hypothesis is based on a myth.

It really does irritate me every time I keep hearing the phrase "Other movies/this movie have/has done the same thing/but they are more objectively terrible thingy madoo’s that you need to shit on instead?"

Just because the older movies have the same mistakes, that doesn’t automatically sway the views or valid arguments of how we see or use against modern media is tanking are magically nonexistent. Just because other/older movies, video games or shows have the same problem, it doesn't excuse when your favorite sacred cow does it.

If anything it makes it worse because you already knew about how the flaws dragged it down under and somehow still did a worse job by falling into the same rabbit holes or creating all new ones and not learning or improving anything. Every time I hear a content creator use things like “more objectively terrible [insert recent piece of media release here] that people SHOULD hate on instead” and "spread the awareness" its done out of deflecting negative critiques somewhere else and pretending like the current day media has no flaws to count off of.

If Pure Kino's video on The Conqueror (1956) was the spread the awareness on how it was the most "objectively bad movie ever made" then that means Madam Webb (2024) should have had the outstanding and amazing golden quality to out do the Godfather. (Spoiler Alert: it isn't)

prequles arent bad

The most miscast film ever. Cowboy John Wayne as an Asian? Brooklyn redhead Susan Hayward as an Asian princess? What??? Why she ever accepted the role is a mystery - she looks nothing like a Mongol at all. Badly acted, with terrible corny dialogue. Wheee! Great fun for fans of bad movies. Acting honors, such as they are, go to Susan, who manages to keep a straight face while spouting those terrible lines. Too bad so many died of cancer because of the area's radiation. Didn't they have Geiger counters to check the area? Howard Hughes is said to have watched this film over and over. No wonder he went bonkers. I was a naive young kid in grade school, and a fan of John Wayne, when I first saw this pic in 1956 at a neighborhood theater. I thought it was terrific - ha!

It is said they imported tons of radioactive red soil back to the studio to finish some scenes. They could have simply used dyed sand. And the entire film could have been shot in the nearby Mohave Desert. No need to go all the way to Utah. Better yet, not film it at all.

THIS WAS PURE INSANITY

“ The Mongols are attacking” “where?” “Right outside of LA they’re coming from the desert in Vegas”😂

I'm sure John Wayne smoking 3+ packs of cigarettes a day had nothing to do with his lung cancer.

It’s not JEM-mugga,, it’s Juh-MOO-ga! An’ by the way…yer beautiful in yer wrath!

Seriously, this was the worst casting I ever saw (Don Johnson as Elvis was a close second). John Wayne always sounded like John Wayne. He always walked and looked like John Wayne. He does all that here, and when he starts with the stilted ridiculous dialogue, it is hysterically entertaining.

I saw this movie as a 10 yo and even then I thought It was baaad

Ghenghis Kan said ' I'm gonna conquer the world, pigrim.