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| In conclusion, John Wayne, " The Conqueror " who represented and defended strong and glorious America, met finally the death tragically because of this same America which he loved so much … But seen the ignorance of the scientists and the servicemen of this epoch who proceeded to these nuclear tests in the Nevada without being able to prejudge some radioactive contagion in the time, none of them was able to be blamed. A film, nevertheless dated 1954, entitled " Them ! " of Gordon Douglas with notably James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn and Joan Weldon told the history of huge ants irradiated by the first american nuclear test … The professor in the film said exactly that he didn't know what this phenomenon of irradiation could give in the future excepting some huge ants … I want to clarify my website about its contents, so that it have there no misenderstanding (because the subject is delicate), so that it's not necessary to see through this site of anti-nuclear thoughts, or something else against the United State, the nuclear, the army, or something else about... (on the contrary, I love America and its cinema, its landscapes, its interesting history, etc..). No militancy here, it is in no way my role. I just want to share my passion about the cinema and present through this shooting of the surprising facts hidden behind the history of the film that I did not suspect myself before having heard about it on tv and in a little website about this subject &éyou could find in my links...
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" The Conqueror
" is only very rarely programmed on the
television. If one day this one is diffused, you will
doubtless look at it under the another angle than that of
the simple entertainment by knowing henceforth that it is
credibly at the origin of the tragic end of a part of the
cast of the film. At least, in the sights of the
distribution and the different talents which composed the
technical team, this film should have been very good,
although it is not very well appreciate in the film
criticisms... Jean Tulard (a french cinema critic), in
his " Guide of Films " of 1990, said all the
same that this film " is not so bad as one said it
". But if " The Conqueror " is not
unforgettable, it will remain it all the same somewhere
bound for ever to this incredible history which will
classify it for ever in the category of the cursed films.
Henceforth, in the United States, this film and its main actor contributed to the research against The Big C, with notably " The John Wayne Cancer Institute " , what finally makes them very honorable. This institute which was officially opened on July 1st, 1991 to the Saint John's Hospital of Santa Monica is chaired by Michael Wayne, son of The Big J, who interpreted a Mongolian guard in the film "The Conqueror " . As regards Steve McQueen, one can find him a relation with Dick Powell, because in 1958, while this last one was in the head of the house of production " Four Stars Films ", he engaged Steve McQueen in Josh Randall's role for the serial " Wanted, Dead or Alive " ( " In the name of the Law " in french) diffused on September 06, 1958 on CBS. [" Four Stars Films " founded by four stars of Hollywood for the Studios of Los Angeles: Dick Powell, David Niven, Ida Lupino and Charles Boyer]. He also did an appearance in the episode " Four hours in white " in 1958 in the series " Climax ! ".... Steve McQueen finishes too his life to fight against a cancer which ate away at him... He dies on November 07, 1980, thirteen hours after an ultimate surgical operation to thwart his cancer of lungs (called " mesothelioma ") which became widespread in the nape of the neck and in the belly, in Juarez ( Mexico) private hospital " Santa Rosa ". A blood clot had originated from Steve Mc Queen's leg, causing an embolism, generator of a coronary thrombosis. The doctors of " Cedars Sinai Hospital " of Los Angeles had agreed that he had been a victim of a too long exposure in the asbestos (meets on docks during a first job). This explains maybe the confusion which made write to the People magazine and to those that had this info that Steve McQueen was a part of the distribution of the Conqueror while it was not the case. Peace in their soul... In a book published in 1993, entitled " American Ground Zero ", the American photographer Carole Callagher published inhabitants' portraits of the Nevada among the 170 000 which lived in a beam of 350 kilometres (217 miles around) these nuclear tests during the 50s. It gives an outline seizing effects of irradiation which created numerous deformations or reproduction of cancers in any kind on a lot of inhabitants. The team of the film was not so an exception...
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