i fight . i love . i conquer like a barbarian . sound like something yul brynner might say . nope and it just the duke and wear a scraggly fu manchu mustache and seemingly painful eye appliance for that oriental look . yes and pilgrim and get out of town when the conqueror rid across the steppe of . utah . this film be so ludicrous that you will howl with laughter . and the duke isn not the only object of derision . susan hayward of the flaming hair and milky skin a the princess who be the object of his desire couldn not be more wrong in that role . you expect her to whip out a cigarette and give forth with some snappy dialogue . dialogue . do people ever really speak that way . somehow i think not . i be surprise mst3k never do this film but maybe it funny without added comment . i can not imagine what the director dick powell be think . this be a man who make some wise decision in his long career while unfortunately this be not one of them . maybe the answer lie in the fact that howard hughes who be not note for his wise decision be the head of rko at the time . the down side of this film be the fact that the majority of those involve be all stricken with cancer possibly a a result of film in an atomic or hydrogen bomb test ground . whose decision be that .