it hard to believe that this movie have ever be make and hard to believe that the cast could be so badly waste despite the talent and and even hard to believe that the pure example of detached machismo in hollywood couldn not pull off the role . john wayne be a great actor and and not the hollow stereotype that he be often accuse of be a his popularity wan . he might not have be one ideal for deliver a comic line and but if anybody could force a line to have dry humor and it be he . the script be the first disaster . the mock shakespearean lingo be for shakespeare and who never set any of his play in mongolia . here it be ludicrous ( chaucer would be in tune with the time and but few people understand chaucerian english ) . the costume fail to convince one . add to this genghiz khan be no hero while he initiate the most horrific kill spree of the pre modern world . it a big mistake to lionize a killer . the great lore of this movie be that so many of the cast and crew die of cancer during some a bomb test near the location . that be sheer bad luck . even without the calamity of cancer allegedly contribute to by nearby nuke and this would be a horrible movie and an embarrasment for all involve .