Conquest - DVD

Take heart, Depression-era America: the nation has faced dire economic crises in years past and with pluck, honest work and persistence has pulled itself aright. The Conquerors combines its morale-boosting message with a tale of one family's lives and times, misfortunes and fortunes from 1873 to 1930. Richard Dix, star of the prior year's sprawling Cimarron, plays dual roles as smalltown banker Roger Standish and his grandson (in a film

Hollywood icon John Wayne stars as the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan in the lavish period epic The Conqueror. Produced by the legendary Howard Hughes (Hell's Angels), the directorial debut of actor Dick Powell (Christmas in July) features a cast of thousands and period costumes recreating 12th century China. Boasting an international cast that includes Academy Award winner Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Pedro Armendariz and William Con

From a space wheel 500 miles above the Earth, commander Samuel Merritt (Walter Brooke) and his men (including Eric Fleming and Benson Fong) construct a sleek robot, then receive orders providing their new craft's destination: Mars! But once the spaceship is underway, doubts surface. Merritt questions the audacity of humankind's reach for the heavens. He calls it blasphemy and threatens to destroy the mission. Five-time Oscar. winner Geo