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THE
CONQEROR filming locations
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CREDITS
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John Wayne
as Genghis Khan? In a Howard Hughes clunker? What should
have been simply a hoot turned into something much more
sinister due to 'Dirty Harry' ‚ not the Clint
Eastwood movie, but the nickname given to a nuclear
test explosion at Yucca Flats in Nevada which dumped
fallout around the area, including
St George in Utah.
And it was in Snow
Canyon State Park, 11 miles to the northwest
of St George, that The Conqueror
was filmed the following year. To make matters worse,
lorryloads of the local red earth were shipped back
to RKO in Hollywood for studio filming.
By 1979 all of the stars ‚ Wayne,
Hayward,
Armendariz
‚ the director Powell
and many of the crew had died of cancer. Wayne
was 72, Hayward
57, Agnes Moorehead
68, Armendariz
52 and Powell
59. The official line is coincidence.
This was 50 years ago, so if you want to visit the canyon, St
George is way down in the southwest corner of Utah
near the Arizona border on I-15.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR THE
CONQEROR
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The park is especially appealing in spring and autumn,
due to southern Utah's moderate winter climate. Featuring
Red Navajo sandstone, capped by an overlay of black lava
rock, Snow Canyon State Park is deep in southwestern Utah, 11 miles northwest
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