Among the 220 or so cast and crew who filmed the 1956 film, The Conqueror, on location near St. George, Utah, ninety-one had come down with cancer, with an unheard of 41 percent morbidity rate, including stars Wayne, Susan Hayward, and Agnes Moorehead, and director Dick Powell. The film was shot in Southwestern Utah, east of and generally downwind from where the U.S. Government had tested nuclear weapons in Southeastern Nevada, and many contend that radioactive fallout from these tests contaminated the film location and poisoned the film crew working there. Despite the suggestion that Wayne’s 1964 lung cancer and his 1979 stomach cancer resulted from this nuclear contamination, he himself believed his lung cancer to have been a result of his six-pack-a-day cigarette habit.[53] The effect of nuclear fallout on The Conqueror's cast and crew, and particularly on Wayne, is the subject of James Morrow's science-fiction short story Martyrs of the Upshot Knothole.[54]
Barton Fink
The Hudsucker Proxy
Raising Arizona
The Big Lebowski
The Man Who Wasn't There
Intolerable Cruelty
No Country For Old Men
Burn After Reading
and A Serious Man
still need to watch Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, and The Ladykillers
I thought Fargo was a lot better than No Country, and they are quite similar. Although I was mind boggingly hungover when I saw No Country, so maybe that contributed.
They are both equally dark and serious but Fargo manages to be really funny at the same time so it wins in my book.
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I'm sure it's awesome
frowning so hard at you right now
I nominate Hudsucker Proxy, out of the ones I've seen. It's still pretty good though.
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you know, for kids!
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Burn After Reading
No Country for Old Men
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Big Lebowski
The Hudsucker Proxy
Raising Arizona
Well, I guess I enjoy Raising Arizona the least of those. But I'd still feel bad calling it the "worst"
It took nuclear radiation to kill John Wayne
Goddamn
Yeah I'd say if you smoke that much it's pretty reasonable to think cigarettes are the cause of your lung cancer.
you should feel bad that this list is so short
120 cigarettes a day
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Six out of fourteen
Man I'm nearly halfway there
It's one of the greatest feel-good movies of all time
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Remake can't fail.
Barton Fink
The Hudsucker Proxy
Raising Arizona
The Big Lebowski
The Man Who Wasn't There
Intolerable Cruelty
No Country For Old Men
Burn After Reading
and A Serious Man
still need to watch Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, and The Ladykillers
I think that's why I'm not in a huge rush to see Fargo
They are both equally dark and serious but Fargo manages to be really funny at the same time so it wins in my book.
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That made me think of Rumble in the Bronx.
Man he was a coffee can of ashes in Big Lebowski.
Also in Miller's Crossing
Geez.
Also that movie is 20 years old.
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