Genghis Khan (1965)
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The internationally produced historical epic Genghis Khan sometimes wavers uncertainly between spectacle and self-parody. Though Omar Sharif essays the title role, top billing is bestowed upon Stephen Boyd as Genghis Khan's mentor-turned-enemy Jamuga. It's hard to generate audience sympathy… More The internationally produced historical epic Genghis Khan sometimes wavers uncertainly between spectacle and self-parody. Though Omar Sharif essays the title role, top billing is bestowed upon Stephen Boyd as Genghis Khan's mentor-turned-enemy Jamuga. It's hard to generate audience sympathy for a Mongolian leader who laid waste to much of the civilized world, but Sharif manages to pull it off. While the battle scenes are impressive, the most memorable sequence involves an outsized fireworks display (which turns out to be a clever bit of military strategy). James Mason is amusing as an epigrammatic Chinese leader, Eli Wallach is appropriately hissable as the film's main villain, and the late Francoise Dorleac is decorative as the romantic bone of contention between Genghis Khan and Jamuga. Most of the film was lensed in Yugoslavia, a country that served as a generic location for many a historical pageant of the 1960s and 1970s. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Henry Levin
- Genres
- Drama, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jun 23, 1965 Wide
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Cast
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Stephen Boyd
as Jamuga
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Omar Sharif
as Temulin-Genghis Khan
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James Mason
as Kam Ling
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Eli Wallach
as Shah of Khwarezm
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Françoise Dorléac
as Bortei
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Telly Savalas
as Shan
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Robert Morley
as Emperor of China
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Michael Hordern
as Geen
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Woody Strode
as Sengal
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Kenneth Cope
as Suhadoi
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Don Borisenko
as Jebai
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Patrick Holt
as Kuchiuk
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George Savalas
as Toktoa
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Edwina Carroll
as Concubine
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Sally Douglas
as Concubine
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Yvonne Shima
as Concubine
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Lucille Soong
as Concubine
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Esther Anderson
as Concubine
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Roger Croucher
as Massar
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Yvonne Mitchell
as Katke
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Gustavo Rojo
as Altan
- Carmen Dene
