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00:00 [WATER SPLASHING]

00:03 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:15 To Howard Hughes, this film called The Conqueror

00:20 was his final masterpiece, a would-be epic, a total farce.

00:27 If I could describe The Conqueror in one word--

00:30 Unfortunate.

00:32 Ridiculous.

00:33 I've heard that it's a terrible movie.

00:35 The Conqueror has been called one of the worst

00:41 films of the 1950s, if not of all time.

00:45 You know, my dad playing Genghis Khan, are you serious?

00:48 I remember watching it and just thinking,

00:51 this is the cheesiest movie I've ever seen.

00:54 I feel this tired woman is for me.

00:56 My blood says, take her.

00:58 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:01 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

01:05 The Harry test deposited more radioactive fallout

01:11 over areas of the United States than any other test.

01:15 A new term, fallout, has occupied

01:18 citizens and the press.

01:19 There has been some exaggeration,

01:20 says the Atomic Energy Commission.

01:22 The tests do not produce dangerous fallout.

01:25 When we moved to St. George, we heard all about The Conqueror

01:29 being here and how the stars were here.

01:32 My dad, what's he doing this week?

01:33 Why he's going to Utah?

01:35 And he's going to be in--

01:36 he's doing a film called The Conqueror?

01:38 OK.

01:39 Living in St. George in the '50s and '60s was magical.

01:42 It was a dream for me.

01:44 Of the 220 people who were constantly on location

01:49 shooting in Utah, that 90 or 91 came down with cancer.

01:57 How many tests do you have to do before you know

02:01 what the consequences are?

02:03 Why do they keep doing it?

02:05 The area where The Conqueror was shot

02:08 contains some of the most radioactive land

02:10 areas in the world.

02:12 They actually brought tons of that radioactive soil

02:17 back to RKO, spread it on the floor of the studios,

02:20 and they were exposed to it.

02:22 It lost so much weight.

02:23 He actually wore a complete other suit of clothes

02:25 underneath it.

02:26 I think this is probably the first time I've ever really

02:29 discussed at any length and depth about what

02:32 my mother experienced.

02:34 I mean, her brain cancer was horrific.

02:37 It was absolutely horrific.

02:39 Why, Mr. Hughes, did you watch this film over and over,

02:42 as if searching for an answer, a reason?

02:45 Our youngest child, Bethany, was just

02:48 a beautiful, delightful child.

02:50 I'm done.

02:51 I am going to shout it from the rooftops.

02:55 I'm not going to be silent anymore.

02:59 [EXPLOSION]

03:02 [EXPLOSION]

03:06 [END PLAYBACK]

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