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Why Did Nuclear Fallout Doom John Wayne’s The Conqueror Cast?

The 1956 film The Conqueror, starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan and Susan Hayward as his love interest, gained notoriety for a tragic aftermath: an unusually high cancer incidence among its 220 cast and crew members, with 91 diagnosed and 46 fatalities by 1981, including Wayne and Hayward. Filmed in Snow Canyon, Utah, near the […]