Could I put in a word for The Conqueror, a wildly entertaining tale of Central Asia involving John Wayne as a young Genghis Khan, Susan Hayward as a haughty Tatar princess, Samantha’s mum from Bewitched (as Genghis’ mum), Frank Cannon, Lee van Cleef and a shaman in a clown hat? Howard Hughes (who else?) was the producer. The real problem with the movie was not, in fact, its cheerfully cavalier approach to historical accuracy and a dialog that has to be heard to be believed, so much as its unfortunate choice of location – never, ever film downwind of a series of nuclear tests.