Masterful casting. That's why those guys have all those letters after their name.

What could she have possibly said or done to deserve that backhand? Does anyone know what dialogue was cut?

"You're beautiful in your wrath. Were Wang younger and more nimble at dodging swords, I might give you to him and keep the furs. For they, too, are beautiful."

"I shall keep you, Bortai. I shall keep you, and responding to my passion, your hatred will kindle into love."

"Before that day dawns, Mongol, the vultures will have feasted on your heart!"

*SMACK!*

Yeah, bitch deserved it.

But seriously. John Wayne as a Mongolian?? I'm not sold.

She was unimpressed by his shitty wall.

>> ^SlipperyPete:

She was unimpressed by his shitty wall.


I thought she'd be less impressed with the cooking there.

With his shitty chicken and shitty beef.

That's okay--everyone involved was well and truly punished. In 1990, responding to various rumors that cast and crew were exposed to radioactive debris from nearby nuclear weapons testing, People Magazine discovered that of the 220 people involved in the making of the film (and not counting numerous Native American extras), 91 had developed some form of cancer, which turns out to be well beyond rate one would expect from a similar sample set. Adding injury to injury, Howard Hughes authorized TONS of the radioactive dirt to be shipped to Hollywood for various interior shots. The best line of the People Magazine article? A scientist from the Pentagon's Defense Nuclear Agency, when informed, "Please, God, don't let us have killed John Wayne."

Then again, it might have been all those unfiltered cigarettes over the years...