From: jtj0012@134.139.2.10   
      
   This movie has to be seen to be believed.   
      
   I got a copy of this over the weekend and sat and watched it.  I hadn't seen   
   it since I was a kid.  It is as bad as it is reported to be.  Made by Howard   
   Hughes for $6 million (and bought back for $12 Million and shelved for 20   
   years--no surprise there), it has a reputation for being both bad and   
   unfortunate.  It was made in an area of Utah that was used for nuclear   
   testing in the early 1950s (there is some dispute as to whether or not it   
   was fallout from the nearby Nevada Test Site, or a second area of testing in   
   Utah itself) and is supposed to be responsible for the deaths of a   
   disproportionate number of cast and crew by cancer.  Tons of sand from the   
   site were moved back to Hollywood for interior shots and were highly   
   radioactive. But I digress...   
      
   Imagine if you will, John Wayne of numerous westerns playing Genghis Khan   
   (including the obligatory asiatic eye treatment--epicanthal fold) but   
   looking and sounding like Rooster Cogburn from True Grit.  He and Susan   
   Hayward (who doesn't even bother with the eye treatment, but is supposed to   
   be a Tartar woman--yeah--who looks like she has never been out in the sun)   
   trade barbs with the worst dialog since Ed Wood took pen to paper.  Agnes   
   Moorehead (Endorra in Betwitched) has almost no dialog, but scowls and   
   spends the entire movie with a pissed-off look on her face.  The worst   
   casting has to be William Conrad (Cannon and Jake and the Fatman) as Kasar,   
   Wayne's brother.  Seeing him short and shirtless is something you don't want   
   to see on a full stomach.  There are a few MST3K connections, including Lee   
   Van Cleef (It Conquered the World) and Peter Mamakos (Catalina Caper).   
      
   I strongly urge the Cinematic Titanic crew to get a copy of this and give it   
   the treatment it deserves.   
      
   Tom Carberry (#45505, it is available from Netflix)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)