I remember hearing about "The Conqueror" from my parents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_(film)#Cancer_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The

I remember hearing about "The Conqueror" from my parents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_(film)#Cancer_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_(film)#Cancer_con... "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 John 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."