In 1954, American billionaire Howard Hughes decided to realize his childhood dream of making a film about "Genghis Khan"'s conquest of the world, through his operation. The entire film was prepared to invest up to $8 million, which was the largest investment in the world at that time.
The film, which was funded by several film companies, is known as a superstar gathering, and is ready to make this film an "epic" that will forever remain in the history of world cinema. The investors invited john Wayne, the famous Western star of the time, to play Genghis Khan, and the heroine invited the popular actress Susan Hayward to play, and the director was Richard Powell.
The storyline of the whole movie is very "Hollywood": the young Temujin falls in love with the Mongolian princess, the two elope together, and then the Mongol tribe chases Temujin and provokes the war. Later, he was captured due to a defeat in the war. When the Mongol princess learned of this, she managed to save Temujin, and eventually Temujin integrated his army to defeat the enemy and become the ruler of Mongolia.
The film's filming team is from Hollywood, and with tacit understanding, everyone believes that this film will create a new box office record. However, it was at this time that the problem occurred, and the problem was on the chosen location.
Mongolia is located on the Mongolian plateau, in the northern part of the Gobi Desert. Many of the war scenes take place in the Gobi Desert. Since it was impossible to shoot in Mongolia, Hughes chose the location in a desert in St. George County, Utah, which is very similar to the scenery of the Mongolian desert. However, the place is only 137 miles from the site of the nuclear test explosion.
Just a year ago, 11 atomic bombs were tested, and the explosion produced a large amount of radioactive dust, which drifted with the wind, and many of which landed on the filming site 137 miles away.
In 1954, the crew filmed a total of 13 weeks of locations in the Utah desert, but over the next 30 years, 91 people developed cancer. It accounts for almost 50% of the crew, and according to analysis, it is due to the large amount of inhalation of nuclear radiation dust by the crew, which later led to cancer.
Perhaps, this is also Genghis Khan's curse on the United States.
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