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23 June 1965 (USA)
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Black Man
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Stereotype
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Mirror
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Mute Person
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Emperor
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A last flirtation with the epic genre!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Stephen Boyd | ... | Jamuga |
 | Omar Sharif | ... | Temujin |
 | James Mason | ... | Kam Ling |
 | Eli Wallach | ... | Shah of Khwarezm |
 | Françoise Dorléac | ... | Bortei (as Francoise Dorleac) |
 | Telly Savalas | ... | Shan |
| Robert Morley | ... | Emperor of China |
| Michael Hordern | ... | Geen |
| Yvonne Mitchell | ... | Katke |
| Woody Strode | ... | Sengal |
| Kenneth Cope | ... | Subotai |
| Roger Croucher | ... | Massar |
| Don Borisenko | ... | Jebai |
| Patrick Holt | ... | Kuchiuk |
| Susanne Hsiao | ... | Chin Yu |
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127 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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70mm blow-up version released in West Germany.
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Factual errors: Genghis Khan didn't start the war Khwarizm because It was in center of the world and would be a great spot for conquering the world (though he might have intentions about it), but because the Shah killed his messengers, and started a bloodbath in revenge
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Temujin, later Genghis Khan:
[in his death chair] Set me so that I can feel the East wind on my face.
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Referenced in A Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine (1966)
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Not quite as bad as John Wayne's famed turkey THE CONQUEROR, but getting there. Problem was with this flick, the makers dumped historical accuracy in favor of developing a Ben-Hur-Messala type confrontation between Genghis Khan (Sharif, at the height of his popularity) and his nemesis, a scowling bewhiskered Jamuga (none other than "Messala" himself - Stephen Boyd)
Plenty of Mongol action and cruelty and the concluding battle between Sharif and Boyd is pretty in-your-face stuff. Production values were OK and suitably epic-ish in feel. The wheels start to fall off though with Robert Morley as the Chinese Emperor, some throwback to his role in 55 DAYS IN PEKING and worse, mega-british James Mason as Kam Ling, as likely a chinese adviser to Morley as Adam Sandler playing Abraham Lincoln. In a minor role as Subatai, Kenneth Cope is struggling to hold down any credibility whatsoever, having been first-string comic relief to David Frost on the THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS TV show.
Not for the epic Hall of Fame I'm afraid!