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Le chef mongol Temujin se bat contre les armées tartares et pour l'amour de la princesse tartare Bortai. Temujin devient l'empereur Gengis Khan.Le chef mongol Temujin se bat contre les armées tartares et pour l'amour de la princesse tartare Bortai. Temujin devient l'empereur Gengis Khan.Le chef mongol Temujin se bat contre les armées tartares et pour l'amour de la princesse tartare Bortai. Temujin devient l'empereur Gengis Khan.
Pedro Armendáriz
- Jamuga
- (as Pedro Armendariz)
Fred Aldrich
- Chieftain #2
- (non crédité)
Phil Arnold
- Honest John
- (non crédité)
Gregg Barton
- Jalair
- (non crédité)
Lane Bradford
- Chieftain #4
- (non crédité)
Larry Chance
- Tartar
- (non crédité)
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Whoever made the decision to cast John Wayne as the young Genghis Khan either had too much imagination or too little. I have rarely laughed so hard at a movie which was trying so hard to be serious. My favourite lines: "My heart tells me this Tartar woman is for me" and "Share the booty" (both of which have become regularly quoted catchlines among the friends who have seen this). Gather some friends, have a few drinks (or more than a few), and watch this film. You'll gasp, you'll groan, you'll wonder if the casting director and scriptwriter were legally sane.
This movie is a train wreck: you are horrified that it happened, but you can't help but look at it.
John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Take a moment and marvel at the thought. It's absurd on it's face and even funnier on film.
My father flipped past this one Saturday, and we all made him go back. We just couldn't believe it. We sat through the whole film, horrified one moment and laughing hysterically the next.
Sadly, though, I don't think anyone involved in the film was in on the joke it would eventually become.
Truly, this is a gem for all MST3K fans. Tom Servo and Crow would indeed love this "classic."
John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Take a moment and marvel at the thought. It's absurd on it's face and even funnier on film.
My father flipped past this one Saturday, and we all made him go back. We just couldn't believe it. We sat through the whole film, horrified one moment and laughing hysterically the next.
Sadly, though, I don't think anyone involved in the film was in on the joke it would eventually become.
Truly, this is a gem for all MST3K fans. Tom Servo and Crow would indeed love this "classic."
It's easy to slam the Duke miscasted as Chinghis Xaan in this film [He was reportedly embarrassed enough not to mention it often in his lifetime] However, the real significance is great numbers of the cast that died of cancer: Susan Hayward, the Duke, Pedro Armendariz, Dick Powell, Lee Van Cleef, De Corsia, Leo Gordon and others. The film was shot on a site where A bomb testing had been conducted and this fact was hushed up for several years. Yes, the film did not have "legs" and is dated. But, I remember seeing it as a young guy and loved it. Years later after completing a doctorate in anthropology, I still love it...bad as it is.
I know this is widely considered to be a great travesty of filmmaking, but its problems can be (and have been) over-stated. The costuming, direction, cinematography and choreography are all quite well done and it is surprisingly true to history. Most people can't get beyond the fact that John Wayne plays the title role of Genghis Khan and I admit that it is difficult, but the greatest problem is his accent, not his acting. He delivers his lines exactly as if he were in one of his Western classics and does not attempt a Mongolian accent. The dialogue is (contrary to the previous comments) not inappropriate, but when delivered by Wayne with his western twang, its does often sound comical. I suggest that the audience try to think of this film as just another cowboy movie and try not to take it so seriously. In the end, it is a thoroughly enjoyable film, and that is what matters. The lack of Asian actors is regrettable, but consistent for the era in which is was made.
An American historical adventure; A story set in the 12th century about the rise of a ferocious chieftain - the future Gengis Khan - who kidnaps the daughter of a ruthless riva, a Tartar, causing continental conflict. Despite some impressive battle sequences and stuntwork, this fiction-based-on-fact epic lacks dramatic force due to its contrived narrative and simplistic, poorly conceived dialogue for the native characters, which meant lines were often delivered in a stilted way. The casting is incongruous, with Susan Hayward's red-permed hair and milky Irish-Swedish complexion looking far from the archetypal Mongolian princess, and John Wayne, in simulated Asian make-up, was at best an elemental Mongolian would-be emperor, with lines often delivered like a Midwestern man on the range than a Mongol in the Gobi. Pedro Armendariz, as Jamuga, the one who was willing to sacrifice himself for his jealous chief, gave a convincing performance.
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe film is sometimes called "An RKO Radioactive Picture." Exteriors were shot in the Escalante Desert near St. George, Utah, which is 137 miles downwind of the United States government's Nevada National Security Site and received the brunt of nuclear fallout from active atomic weapons testing in this period. In 1953, two years before production started, 11 above-ground nuclear weapon tests occurred at the Nevada site as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole. The cast and crew spent many difficult weeks on the Utah location. The filmmakers knew about the nuclear tests, but the federal government had assured residents that the tests posed no hazard to the public health. Over 100 above and below ground nuclear bombs were detonated in the area from 1951 to 1962. Although the area was contaminated by nuclear fallout, the Atomic Energy Commission assured Howard Hughes and the local population that the area was completely safe. Photographs exist of John Wayne holding a Geiger counter that reportedly made so much noise that he thought it was broken. After location shooting, Hughes had over 60 tons of contaminated soil transported back to Hollywood in order to match interior shooting done there. Over the next 30 years, 91 of the 220 cast and crew members developed cancer. Forty-six died, including John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz (who shot himself in 1963 soon after learning he had terminal cancer), Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt, and director Dick Powell. Lee Van Cleef had throat cancer, but died of a heart attack. The count did not include several hundred local Native Americans who played extras, or relatives of the cast and crew who visited the set, including John Wayne's son Michael Wayne. A "People" article quoted the reaction of a scientist from the Pentagon's Defense Nuclear Agency to the news, "Please, God, don't let us have killed John Wayne." As of June 2011, the article is available in its archive online. It has however been suggested that many of the cast and crew died of cancer as a result of smoking. John Wayne had smoked between three to five packs of cigarettes a day since the early 1930s, and most of the other actors and crew members were also heavy cigarette smokers.
- GaffesThe bows that Temujin and Wang Khan use are modern recurves, which would make them approximately 700 years too early.
- ConnexionsFeatured in The World According to Smith & Jones: The Middle Ages (1987)
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Détails
Box-office
- Budget
- 6 000 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut mondial
- 15 415 $US
- Durée
- 1h 51min(111 min)
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 2.55 : 1
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