Genghis Khan is the role John Wayne was born to play

Gods of Egypt: I cast Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton as Moses and Rameses, clearly I am the king of racial miscasting.
Aloha: Bitch please, I cast Emma Stone for a Hawaiian-Chinese-Swedish character, checking off exactly zero boxes, so I'll take that crown, thank you.
Prince of Persia: I literally have the nationality in my title and I cast two American actors. Step off, Aloha.
21: Don't even "Persia." At least your characters were fictional, I replaced real Asian-Americans with white dudes, ya bastard.
Face of Fu Manchu: I made Christopher Lee a Chinese guy. The white to Asian trophy belongs to me, you poser.
Breakfast at Tiffany's: Did someone say whites replacing Asians? Erm, I'm the king of that, so thank ru, come again.
This Conqueror: Hold my motherfuckin' beer...

All future lead actor performances will now be evaluated on a scale of There Will be Blood Daniel Day-Lewis - The Conqueror John Wayne

I don’t know who did their job worse, the script writer or the location scout. One probably gave severe brain damage to millions, the other caused cancer in almost half the production crew. Tough call.

"She is a woman, Jamuga. Much woman. Should her perfidy be less that that of other women?"

Auteurism so vulgar that it literally poisoned and eventually killed the single greatest movie star who has ever walked the Earth! Howard Hughes and John Wayne are probably chilling right now in Heaven, drinking their hearts out, laughing down at all the miserable farts who cannot relax and enjoy a handsomely mounted, majestically scored, high camp, old school adventure (or just the presence of the red wildcat Susan Hayward). Has an actual Mongolian ever been asked about the "non-troversial" casting choices and if the Duke made their people proud in the role? That will be the day...

Literally killed John Wayne.

Never mind the fact that this is glorifying one of the most evil men in human history -- this movie is filled with so much racism, I'm surprised John Wayne didn't look right at the camera and shout, "Ching chong, Pilgrim!"

This film is embarrassing and hard to watch, an all-time low for John Wayne and his costars. Hearing how most people involved with its production suffered with cancer and radiation poisoning from the production's close proximity to a nuclear test site is honestly one of the most tragic behind the scenes stories of any film production I've ever heard. This is a cursed film that was not worth anyone dying over.

“Dance Tartar Woman! Dance for Temujin!” – John Wayne, in yellowface, as a romanticized version of Genghis Khan, to a half-naked Susan Hayward.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, folks.

Got a VCR for Christmas. What's up with you?

Certainly not a film you could make today. As a story, it was interesting enough but not groundbreaking. I'm having a lot of trouble wrapping my head around why you would make a film like this about Central Asian tribes and cast most of the main characters as white people (or at least, not Asians). I realize it was a different time, but still.

Although I really enjoy John Wayne in his Westerns, he did not shine in this. His delivery was super wooden, and the old-timey English didn't help. I kept waiting for someone to respond to a question with "yea, verily."

Fine entertainment, but definitely not a keeper. Good thing it was only 25 cents.

2.5 Tartar women out of 5

With its climactic scene of John Wayne, in ill-considered makeup and Fu Manchu mustache, standing on a desert hilltop in Technicolor nighttime blue, pleading to the heavens to send him some men, this would likely have been reclaimed as a silly camp classic by now if it weren't for the dark backstory. Famously, the blasted Mongol plains are being portrayed by none other than a fresh nuclear testing ground, which led to an extremely high cancer rate among the cast and crew. Otherwise it feels like John Wayne doing any of his typical western hero characters (and his approach to pronunciation is just as it would be in say, The Searchers), but with a character where he could get away with no moral restraint.

aside from everyone being in yellow-face, and waynes particularly awful performance, this is also unforgivably boring. waste of technicolor.

One more of those films hard hit by critics for not understanding the context in which it is made. It should be understood that it is a 1956 production, a project with not much funding and that really gets the viewer entertained. If you like Asian history in general you will enjoy it, ignore criticism and prejudice and enjoy this classic. It is also worth remembering the genre to which this film belongs, since if we compare it with other works of the genre, we already realize that it has been unfairly crushed by critics. Surely because it tells us about a story located in Central Asia and not a story in the repetitive Wild West? Well yes, surely because of this ...

Terrible but for that very reason incredible

Lmao

(Please don’t watch this)

this is undoubtedly one of the most sexist movies I've ever seen and I can't tell if it's because it's from the 50s or because it's about Genghis Khan or a mixture of both lol

i feel like this movie is trying to gaslight me into forgetting what human interaction sounds like

"She is a woman, Jamuga. Much woman. Should her perfidy be less that that of other women?"

Auteurism so vulgar that it literally poisoned and eventually killed the single greatest movie star who has ever walked the Earth! Howard Hughes and John Wayne are probably chilling right now in Heaven, drinking their hearts out, laughing down at all the miserable farts who cannot relax and enjoy a handsomely mounted, majestically scored, high camp, old school adventure (or just the presence of the red wildcat Susan Hayward). Has an actual Mongolian ever been asked about the "non-troversial" casting choices and if the Duke made their people proud in the role? That will be the day...