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How did a movie cause a mass death? What happened in the Utah desert that no one knew about? Newsbomb.gr takes you to the movie that still causes horror in Hollywood today!
You have surely heard many stories about cursed movies where inexplicable phenomena led to the death of actors. But none compares to the 1956 one, entitled “The Conqueror” starring John Wayne, which left a total of 46 dead!
The film was produced by businessman and mogul Howard Hughes. The film stars the great John Wayne and the beautiful Susan Hayward, while the film was directed by the great Dick Powell.
The story of the film is very simple: Genghis Khan falls madly in love with the daughter of his greatest enemy. The script immediately caused a flurry of excitement in Hollywood and everyone was waiting for a movie that would sweep the box office and the Oscars. Φευ …
The shooting of death
Obviously, the movie had to be plausible, as it would deal with the love story of the legendary Mongol emperor, so it would have to be shot in a desert with spooky landscapes.
After weeks of searching for the right location, director Dick Powell deemed Utah’s St. George Wilderness ideal.
However, what the filmmaker (and a few others) kept quiet was that 200 miles away, the US military had been conducting nuclear tests for at least a decade.
The arid hills around the shooting area were covered in radioactive dust. Measurements made by the experts indicated that the radioactivity was several units above the safe limit.
The concentration of radioactivity was so high that from 1956 to 2007 the area was considered contaminated!
In fact, the taxpayers went like sheep to the slaughterhouse, with the desert “spitting” cancer, since since 1950 more than 100 nuclear tests were carried out in the area while just two years before the shooting began in 1953, they were eleven!
Condemned from the first shot!
After the cast started filming, everything started to go wrong.
Delays, fights and a movie that was voted one of the worst in the history of cinema, “sealed” the fate of “El Conquistador.”
Until the “beast” of radioactivity began to leave its marks on the bodies of the actors in the film.
A total of 220 people participated in the outdoor shooting of the film in the St. George area of Utah. Of these, 91 had fallen ill in the following years!
The 46 failed and died. Between both the two protagonists and the director of the film.
John Wayne died at the age of 72 in 1979 of severe lung and stomach cancer. He never openly admitted that the shooting in the St. George desert was responsible for his battle with the disease.
The same fate befell her co-star, Susan Hayward, as she was diagnosed with a brain tumor about 15 years after the film.
Wayne’s kids proved the truth … sick!
And if the most legendary cowboy in movie history did not accept the truth about radioactivity in the Utah desert, two of his sons decided to prove that their father fell ill during the filming of “The Conqueror.”
For several months I made measurements on the motives and places where the film was shot and the result was chilling: they both developed benign tumors, which were operated on and removed.
As for why Wayne blatantly avoided accepting the possibility of “poisoning” by radioactivity?
The United States was on the brink of nuclear war with Russia, and the patriot (and anti-communist fanatic) Wayne did not want to blame the weapons tests.
But the government never wanted to publicly state that one of Hollywood’s biggest stars died because they tested weapons.
They tried to delete the copies!
According to an urban legend, Howard Hughes, the film’s producer in the late 1970s, spent more than $ 12 million to purchase all the copies of the film that had been released.
Finally, the producer Supreme, whoever “smelled” sea bass with the doro that had been created approached him and paid him handsomely to buy the rights to the film and the original film.
This was also the last film in which Hughes was the producer …