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If 'The Long Ships' is on DVD, why not 'Genghis'?

posted 16 years ago by Gooper
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Yeah, it's a tinker-toy epic, but great fun, despite aiming at serious drama. Only 'Marco the Magnificent' outdoes it for 'Mutinational Production Prize' of the 60s.

Highlights:

- Dusan Radic's fantastic score. He achieves a Rosza-like standard, I think.

- Michael Hordern yelling 'TEMM-U-JEEN!!!' endlessly.

- James Mason's Mandarin parody. Politically correct it ain't.

- Bob Morley steals the show (as usual), as the effete emperor. The only character in cinema history who is killed by WATCHING fireworks. Best line, as he hands a featherweight fan to a servant: 'Take it, it grows heavy'.

- Orson Welles WASN'T in this one, but should have been.

So now, Columbia, give it to us in all its widescreen majesty, huh?

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16240) 8 months ago

Because The Long Ships was better lol.